The 80 km / h evaluation committee considers lowering the speed unproductive
While nearly 50 departments have reportedly raised the speed to 90 km / h on certain axes since the relaxation of 80 km / h voted by the National Assembly, the Independent Evaluation Committee of 80 km / h ensures that this controversial measure would have "no significant impact on road mortality".
Like every year, the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory (ONISR) publishes its detailed report on accidents on French roads. Statistics particularly expected for 2018, because this document provides a solid basis for examining the effectiveness – or not – of the reduction to 80 km / h on the roads put in place on July 1, 2018 !
- MNC of October 18, 2018:
- MNC special file :
Unsurprisingly, the Independent 80 km / h Evaluation Committee is among the quickest to seize it: let us recall that this committee was launched by the Association 40 Million d’Automobilistes, openly opposed to repressive policies in terms of road safety in general and at 80 km / h in particular.
No one will be surprised therefore that this committee composed of various personalities representing motorists, motorcyclists, cyclists, victims, researchers and experts regularly issues as to the usefulness of lowering on secondary roads. !
"The 2018 road safety report shows that the measurement of 80 km / h has had no significant effect on road mortality since its entry into force on July 1, 2018", he says while one would already have took the opportunity to raise the limit to 90 km / h.
Mortality fell faster before 80 km / h !
The Independent Evaluation Committee of 80 km / h supports its conclusions from three figures which according to him leave no doubt as to the failure of this measure, supposed to save between "300 and 400 lives per year" according to the government…
"The average annual decrease in fatalities observed over the previous 20 years on all networks in mainland France was 226 people per year. It was only 200 people over the whole of 2018 and this despite the drop in road traffic of nearly 2% in 2018, according to statistics on road fuels consumed (pending traffic measurements), which itself should have been automatically accompanied by a reduction in mortality of nearly 60 people ", begins the Committee.
- MNC of March 29, 2019 :
Moreover, this fall would even be "lower in the second half of 2018 than in the previous half". For the Committee, it breaks down "according to figures from the DSR, into a drop of 104 people killed during the first half of the year (before the entry into force of 80 km / h), and a drop of 96 people killed during the second semester compared to the corresponding semesters of 2017 ".
"The drop has therefore been smaller since the entry into force of 80 km / h than before", he concludes before concluding: "since the entry into force of 80 km / h, the decrease in the number of deaths truck drivers in France was "only" 85 in total in ten months ".
Mortality down 7.5% in May
The independent 80 km / h evaluation committee considers that these results are far from the initial objectives, especially in view of the negative impacts of this decision: the uprising is partly attributable to this desired measure and supported by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
"A comprehensive and unprejudiced reflection on road safety policy in our country seems to be required, with a view to the final 80 km / h report scheduled for July 1, 2020", concludes the Committee by considering that the Delegation to the road safety (DSR) "marks a refusal of transparency contrary to public ethics and its own commitments" by refusing to transfer all its statistical information to it.
- MNC special file :
According to the latest monthly newsletter from ONSIR for the month of May 2019, road fatalities would have fallen by "-7.5%", or 20 deaths less than in May 2018. This significant drop comes after, conveniently attributed the degradation of radars by the Ministry of the Interior in charge of road safety…
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