Radars – What results for the 80 km-h before the departure of Emmanuel Barbe? –

What results for the 80 km / h before the departure of Emmanuel Barbe ?

Radars - What results for the 80 km-h before the departure of Emmanuel Barbe? -

Before his departure from the DSR, the future police chief of Bouches-du-Rhône obviously draws up a flattering assessment of the measures taken during his exercise, in particular the application of 80 km / h … Fact checking.

Before his, the future police chief obviously draws up a flattering assessment of the measures taken during his exercise, in particular the application of 80 km / h which, according to him, would have allowed to avoid "334" deaths on the balance sheet of the .

334 lives "spared" by 80 km / h ?

"We had said that the figures would drop thanks to this measure and they have fallen", assures our colleagues from the Parisian, the future former interministerial delegate for road safety: "not as much as we would have liked because of the phenomenon of destruction radars, but there is no doubt that thanks to the application of this measure, we have saved 334 lives in 18 months ", estimates Emmanuel Barbe.

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Recall that the government claimed that lowering the speed to 80 km / h would save "400 lives per year", which is almost twice as much as the toll that Mr. Barbe boasts (334 lives in 18 months = 222 lives in 12 months)! And when the latter ensures that the "destruction of the radars" affects the effect of 80 km / h, the analysis is – voluntarily? – oriented and reductive…

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MNC for its part draws up another assessment that is easy to quantify: the number of road deaths is historically low in 2019 () while a large number of radars were out of service: up to "75%" at the height of, according to own figures from the Ministry of the Interior on which the DSR depends. At the start of 2020, some are even still covered with their "maintenance" tarpaulin. In other words: the fewer radars there are, the fewer deaths! CQFD…

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