Radars – New demagogic package for road safety –

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New demagogic package for road safety

Radars - New demagogic road safety package -

The last IRB has once again announced its share of demagogic and repressive measures, in line with the great national project of the future ex-president, Jacques the noise and the smell of Chirac. Anthology.

After the CM2 level war that pitted the new Minister of Transport and the future President of the Republic for a few days, finally arbitrated by the Prime Minister in favor of the second (read), the Interministerial Road Safety Committee (IRB) announced Friday in Matignon its new train of demagogic measures intended to make road users in general and bikers in particular feel guilty.

Taking up the 2004 statistics already published in May (read), the government again relied on THE additional death in two-wheelers (814 motorcyclists killed in 2004 against 813 in 2003) to consider that "the situation of motorcyclists is becoming very worrying "because they" show an increase of + 0.1% in the number of deaths compared to 2003 ".

Always pretending to ignore that the consequences of a crash on a motorcycle are obviously, inevitably and irreparably more serious than that of a collision in a car – and that they always will be, by the very nature of the two types of vehicles, except to equip motorcycles with a body and four wheels -, the government has correctly put in parallel two apparently contradictory figures: "although representing only less than 1% of the traffic, they [the drivers of two- wheels] constitute 15.6% of the victims ". A shock shortcut that allows you to conveniently forget a whole bunch of more complex factors, such as these studies showing that 50% of car / motorcycle accidents are attributable to the motorist (who in nearly three out of four cases simply has not seen the biker), 37% for the biker and 13% for the "no luck" factor (read).

"However, the trend is more favorable for mopeds with the number of people killed down 13.7%," notes the IRB, "which can partly be explained by the first effects of the registration of mopeds in place since 1 July 2004 ".

But a IRB would not be a true IRB TF1 approved without the traditional verse on jailbreak. The eminent specialists have therefore again copiously castigated this practice – "almost systematic" on mopeds and "a large part" of large-capacity motorcycles – which "contributes to the particular dangerousness of these modes of transport". In order to "strengthen the fight against the unbridling of motorcycles and mopeds", the IRB has therefore added to an already very impressive repressive arsenal two new coercive measures:

On the professional side, "the marketing of an unbridled motor two-wheeler will be sanctioned more firmly": two years’ imprisonment, a fine of 30,000 euros, confiscation of the vehicle and ban from exercising his activity for the professional.

On the user side, "the circulation of an unbridled motor two-wheeler" will not only lead to "the immobilization and confiscation of the vehicle" for cyclos and motorcycles, but also "the suspension of the driving license with a withdrawal of four points "for the motorcyclist who would have had the audacity to ride on a machine comparable to those of our neighbors in Europe and the rest of the world.

It should also be noted that the unhealthy proliferation of automatic radars (10,000 contravention notices are sent every day) will continue from 2006 with the installation of 500 new fixed and mobile devices, because "it is necessary to consolidate the device and to increase its effectiveness. ", estimates the IRB which also announces" the suppression of the announcement of mobile radars by panels upstream of the installed devices "(Editor’s note: unlike fixed devices, mobile radars have never been reported upstream, read our).

The dose of demagogy and repression deployed by the government of Dominique de Galouzeau de Villepin – named by Jacques "the noise and the smell" Chirac to succeed a first Baudet du Poitou worn to the cord – is this time so enormous that even Le Figaro – you read that right! – was moved by it, regretting that the road safety policy is so dictated by the "associations of road victims" which "intervene in the public debate as self-proclaimed experts solely on the basis of a competence drawn unfortunately from a road accident ".

"It’s a bit as if the families of victims of a plane crash then signified a new way of piloting to the flight crew or another way of building aircraft with Boeing or Airbus," the daily said "on the right. ", deploring the fact that politicians have become unable to overcome these" skin reactions ":" road safety extremists maintain gender confusion on purpose, likening speeding to that of a criminal act while this are the openly irresponsible behaviors that must be discouraged ".

Decidedly in the midst of a crisis of lucidity, Le Figaro finally regrets that "the real measures such as the reform of the driving license, with learning emergency braking and obstacle avoidance, [are] still not relevant" …. We will have seen it all !

But the best part about it is that Nicolas Sarkozy is not yet President of the Republic! A finding that lets imagine the good years after 2007, with leaders increasingly cut off from the world who persist in striking where it is easiest and least compromising, to maintain the illusion of political power disappeared and to pass like a letter to the post office the progressive disappearance of freedoms by proceeding in waves of successive "scapegoats": first illegal immigrants, then foreigners in general, intermittent profiteers, Polish plumbers, the desiccated old people, the young savages, the lazy unemployed, the well-off civil servants, the strikers taking France hostage, the criminal motorists, the unconscious bikers … The list goes on and on !

Eric MICHEL

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