Road safety – How to count road deaths? –

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How to count the road deaths ?

Road safety - How to count road deaths? -

The CNSR, meeting for the 2nd time, decided that road deaths would still be counted at 6 days. Rene Dosière and Isabelle Massin also gave their feelings on the new Parisian bus routes in terms of road safety..

The second working meeting of the National Road Safety Council (CNSR), installed on October 26 by Jean-Claude Gayssot (see), was held today in the offices of the Ministry of Transport in La Defense, on the 28th floor of the Pascal tower. At the end of the meeting, Rene Dosière (PS deputy for Aisne and president of the CNSR) and Isabelle Massin (interministerial delegate for road safety) spoke of the difficult debate on the definition of road fatalities. Small reminder: when not killed instantly, a road victim can die a few days after the accident. However, France is the only country in Europe, with Portugal, to limit to 6 days the period during which the death will be attributed to traffic. After this period, the death is not counted in the statistics, while most other countries use a longer period (30 days) which necessarily results in an increase in the number of deaths recorded..

In order to be able to compare its figures with those of other countries, France applies a coefficient of 1.057 to them. This method is not unanimous, especially with road safety associations, the CNSR had planned to propose the transition to 30 days. "Most members were in favor", Rene Dosière explained to The automotive industry, "but the representative of the Gendarmerie finally explained to us that this measure would pose very great technical difficulties in the collection of information.". The deadline will therefore remain 6 days, with the exception of certain test departments which will experiment with the 30-day method. Asked about the contribution of the new Parisian bus routes in terms of road safety, Mr. Dosière replied that" it was "still too early to judge". As for the INRETS report on the dangers of mobile phones while driving, Mr. Dosière did"not yet had time to get it"."I do not believe that this is a priority of the CNSR", he told us.

Isabelle Massin for her part considered that "the new bus routes necessarily go in the direction of better safety, insofar as they are intended to develop the use of public transport"… before specifying, too, that it was still too early to be able to draw an assessment! Regarding the opportunity to standardize the bus lane separation benches (nearly five types of benches exist side by side in the capital), Ms. Massin explained that it was "extremely difficult, and not necessarily desirable since each street has its own specificities". Finally, regarding the risk incurred by motorized two-wheelers traveling outside the bus lanes, Rene Dosière and Isabelle Massin both recognized that the new lanes could have"side effects to take into account"… Time will tell ?

Eric MICHEL

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