Road safety – Safety: the 7 proposals of the Mutuelle des Motards –

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Safety: the 7 proposals of the Mutuelle des Motards

Road safety - Safety: the 7 proposals of the Mutuelle des Motards -

As part of the Parliamentary Information Mission relating to the analysis of the causes of traffic accidents, the CEO of the Mutuelle des Motards, Patrick Jacquot, spoke at the beginning of September at the National Assembly where he presented seven proposals aimed at to improve the safety of two-wheeled users.

As part of the Parliamentary Information Mission relating to the analysis of the causes of traffic accidents, the CEO of the Mutuelle des Motards, Patrick Jacquot, spoke at the beginning of September at the National Assembly where he presented seven proposals aimed at to improve the safety of two-wheeled users.

"Accidents with third parties represent more than 80% of motorcycle and scooter accidents"

"In 28 years of existence, the Mutuelle des Motards has supported its members and their families in more than 220,000 accidents, and our statistics confirm official studies such as the MAIDS report: in more than 2 out of 3 accidents with a third party, the 2-wheeler driver is not responsible, he is a victim "recalled Patrick Jacquot who would have applied to" in breach of prejudices on the behavior of bikers and scooter riders "of the French deputies.

In response to questions from parliamentarians, the insurer proposed "seven fundamental measures which are based on findings shared by all, researchers, public authorities, users, but which have still not been implemented".

1. The creation of a real educational continuum, from an early age, from school to post-license training

Deploring that the time devoted to road safety is reduced to "the minimum portion" in school education, Patrick Jacquot reminded parliamentarians of the importance of training followed by the youngest two-wheeled users..

"If it is necessary to multiply the messages of caution, future drivers must be allowed to decipher the interactions between modes of transport, but also to analyze the behavior of users according to their own constraints", explained the CEO of the Mutual. from bikers to elected officials.

2. Better train drivers of motorized two-wheelers to analyze risky situations

According to Patrick Jacquot, "hospitals and cemeteries are full of bikers and scooter riders who had priority". According to him, this situation is induced by the feeling of "over-confidence" felt by bikers and scooter riders "very attached to their priority status in traffic".

In short: too confident in their ability to extricate themselves from the flow of traffic, two-wheeled users sometimes have to pay dearly for a sort of feeling of superiority. Especially since it "is cumulative to the failures of perception, diagnosis and prognosis of motorists", specifies the CEO.

An analysis which, let’s face it, is not completely unfounded. On the other hand, let’s hope that it does not participate in darkening even more the restrictive vision of certain "anti-two-wheelers" for whom ALL bikers are potential delinquents …

3. Train motorists in the detection of 2-wheelers in traffic by including the initiation to driving a 2-wheeler into the basic training for a driving license.

According to statistics collected by the Mutuelle des Motards, the frequency of accidents between motorists and drivers of two-wheelers would drop "by half when the motorist has taken a two-wheeler training course or holds a big-cube license".

A spectacular drop, undoubtedly explained by the awareness of the vulnerability of two-wheeled users of motorists themselves "bikers or scooters".

4. Create a real official count of the 2-wheel motor vehicle fleet

Despite the 19.8% drop in, our leaders tend to cling to "shock" (and therefore "media") statistics to define the practice of two-wheelers, such as the fact that at equal mileage, the accident risk would be 20 times higher on two-wheelers than in cars.

Annoyed by this "habit", Patrick Jacquot recalled that for lack of a real official count of the rolling stock since the 80s, it seems very difficult to establish reliable statistics…

"If we add large cubes, 125 cc and mopeds, new vehicles and used vehicles, the Mutual estimates the number of 2-wheelers in circulation today at 3 million," said the CEO of the Mutuelle des Motards to parliamentarians, which means that the share of two-wheelers in traffic is closer to "10% than to the 2% systematically invoked".

What’s more, the big boss of motorcycle and scooter insurance wanted to point out that the number of kilometers traveled in two-wheelers would be constantly increasing "because new users (125, scooter) use their 2WD daily to travel to their place of work ". A proportion of users which represented "16% of intramural traffic" in Paris in 2010 according to Mr. Jacquot, which is based on data from the Paris Police Prefecture.

5 – Set up a real follow-up of school cars and motorcycles

"Today the license boxes are multiplying, where miracle packages and cramming have educational value in establishments whose economic model is based on the number", laments the CEO who insists that "drivers do not learn more to drive, but to pass the exam "

A practice defended by the Association for the training of motorcyclists (AFDM), partner of the motorcyclists‘ mutual, which is one of the rare brands to have "based its work on the quality of education" has (obviously! ) not failed to emphasize Patrick Jacquot !

According to the head of the Mutual, this policy of numbers would have direct consequences on the worrying accidentality of novices: "according to the Paris Police Prefecture, 30% of bikers killed in the capital had held their license for less than a month. This percentage of deaths rises to 60% among those who had held the permit for less than a year ", says the CEO.

6 – Create equity between users

Recalling that the Interministerial Road Safety Council (read our) wishes to impose compulsory training on motorcyclists and scooter riders who have not driven two-wheelers for five years, Patrick Jacquot asked parliamentarians to consider the same policy for all users.
 
"Why not do the same thing with motorists, who share the same road environment, and are subject to the same interactions between users?" Asked the boss of the Mutual who calls for "fairness between users".

7 – Take into account the fragility of 2-wheelers in the infrastructure

Inappropriate lane separators, speed bumps worthy of a motocross table or slippery floor paints: examples of poorly designed, even dangerous, road equipment and street furniture for bikers and scooter riders are numerous and would even multiply according to Patrick jacquot.

The director of the Mutual thus told the deputies that "all the studies show the aggravating nature of the infrastructure in motorcycle and scooter accidents" and wishes that "the safety of two-wheelers be integrated into the mandatory specifications. any new road equipment or street furniture ".

The CEO of Mutuelle des Motards argued his seventh and last proposal by specifying that experiments "carried out by certain communities such as the Herault General Council" show that if the fragility of two-wheelers is integrated "from the design stage of a project, the final additional cost is 1% ".

It remains to be seen whether this tiny additional cost can become a cause defended by our parliamentarians who, for many, "rely" rather on the media, reinforcement of the repressive arsenal and the profitable multiplication of automatic radars … Stay tuned !

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