Road safety at the time of the electoral campaign…
In order not to be outdone during the next launch of the National Road Safety Council (of government origin), the French President received at the Elysee Palace representatives of road safety associations, including the FFMC.
While the French electoral campaign for the 2002 presidential elections will mainly focus on safety (particularly road safety), Jacques Chirac met last Tuesday at the Elysee Palace with representatives of associations and professionals engaged in the fight against road accidents . The League against road violence, the Anne Cellier Foundation, Professor Claude Got and the FFMC, in particular, were able to present their complaints and proposals in favor of road safety for two hours. Jacques Chirac was mainly content to listen, but all the same meant to Geneviève Jurgensen and Philippe Laville, of the League against road violence (supporters of an extremely reduced presidential amnesty), that "extremist behavior tends to lead to the opposite results of what is expected"… To temporize the theories of Doctor Got (black boxes and engine clamping on all floors), Guillaume Chocteau, coordinator at the national office of the FFMC, recalled that"road users have brains between their ears. So it’s the drivers who drive, not the vehicles". He also insisted on the importance of road training at school and on the need to increase the budgets devoted to road safety, joined on this point by Mr. Gerondeau of the French Federation of Automobile Clubs. by Moto-Net, Guillaume Chocteau considers that "the budgets devoted to road safety are melting like snow in the sun, when the means of repression are developing. In addition, compared to countries like Germany or the Netherlands, we do not talk enough about road safety in France.". While the number of road fatalities increased by 6.5% in September 2001 compared to September 2000, Guillaume Chocteau also asked President Chirac for an audit on road safety policies carried out in France for 20 years, "to see where the cause of failure lies". Furthermore, the FFMC is delighted to sit on the future National Road Safety Council (CNSR), announced last October by the government of Lionel Jospin, and which according to our information should see the light of day very soon. The CNSR will be made up of ” around forty participants from ten road safety organizations (including Frederic Brodziack, member of the FFMC national office), as well as parliamentarians and representatives from the ministries of transport, the interior and national education. But above all, it will have its own budget, which should enable participants to carry out concrete analyzes.Road safety week"will take place from 22 to 27 October in France. An excellent opportunity to inaugurate the CNSR … and allow Lionel Jospin to get back to the road safety stakes ?
Eric MICHEL
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