Speed ​​cameras – 80 km-h limit: road safety is already communicating its language elements to the prefects! –

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80 km / h limit: road safety is already communicating its language to the prefects !

Speed ​​cameras - 80 km-h limit: road safety is already communicating its language elements to the prefects! -

In an official document addressed to the prefects that Site has obtained, the Road Safety Directorate (DSR) is already sharpening its arguments to raise the speed limit to 80 km / h on the secondary network in January…. Language elements.

Decidedly, the trap is being set up and should soon be closed on French motorcyclists and motorists: while the Prime Minister has reduced the speed to 80 km / h instead of 90 on "two-way roads without central separator "but that the Ministry of the Interior ensures that the Road Safety Directorate (DSR, which depends … on the Ministry of the Interior!) has just sent to the prefects .

Objective: spread the good word of the government in the regions…

  • MNC special file :

"After 12 consecutive years of decline in road fatalities, the number of deaths started to rise again in 2014 (+ 3.5%) and 2015 (+ 2.3%) before stabilizing in 2016 (+ 0.5 %) and in 2017 (+ 0.9% over the first 11 months of the year) ", first reminds the DSR to the prefects before hammering them that with" more than 1000 deaths per year, speeding are the leading cause of death on French roads (32%) "ahead of alcohol (19%) and narcotics (9%).

Let us pass on the yet crucial difference between "speeding" and "excessive speed" which successive governments continue to pretend to ignore – and worse, to mix, since two paragraphs later the DSR affirms that "excessive or inappropriate speed to the circumstances is present in 32% of accidents ", which is quite different from a speeding ticket – to focus on the elements of language – sorry, the arguments – that the prefects will be asked to learn and repeat until nausea.

"The faster we drive, the faster we go, but blah not that much"

The prefects are notably invited to recall on the one hand that "the faster you drive, the more time it takes to brake" – questioned immediately by MNC, a CM2 reader also means that water is wet and fire is burning – and that on the other hand "the faster we drive, the faster we go but not that much" … Our interlocutor being surreptitiously turned in front of Gulli, we can unfortunately only imagine his contemptuous pout on reading this new argument.

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For those who follow, know that the DSR advises prefects to learn braking distances by heart and especially to remember that speed is not only dirty, dangerous, stupid and mean, but above all it is useless: think -so, calculate the officials of the DSR, by driving at 90 km / h instead of 80 between Cluny and Taize (), you gain barely 45 seconds on 8 minutes of journey. Ditto for joining Châteauroux to Lignières, where the time saving at 90 would only be 3 min 20 over a 31 min journey…

Finally, a massive argument to deliver to the good people to liven up the New Year’s Eve debates: the DSR estimates the fuel savings achieved by driving at 80 km / h instead of 90 at "120 euros per year on average", while pollutants would decrease at the same time by "30%" … Optimal engine speed? Do not know !

Eric MICHEL

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