Road safety – CNSR: yellow vest, size of the plates … and line up –

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CNSR: yellow vest, size of the plates … and line up

Road safety - CNSR: yellow vest, size of the plates ... and line up -

The recommendations of the two-wheeled commission of the National Road Safety Council (CNSR) chaired by Patrick Jacquot – possession of the yellow vest and standardization of the size of the plates to 210×130 mm – have just been voted by the CNSR on June 21, 2013, which even mentioned a third clean section …

The recommendations of the two-wheeled commission of the National Road Safety Council (CNSR) chaired by Patrick Jacquot – possession of the yellow vest and standardization of the size of the plates to 210×130 mm – have just been voted by the CNSR on June 21, 2013, who even mentioned a third aspect specific to two-wheeled vehicles: interlocking traffic.

Site readers – who, as everyone knows, are a little more fortunate than others – already know that the CNSR was seriously studying the issue of holding the yellow vest and wearing it in an emergency by users of two – motorized wheels, as well as that of the standardization of the plates of these same vehicles (read)

Gathered this morning in the Colbert room of the National Assembly, the members of the CNSR chaired by the deputy (PS) of Bas-Rhin Armand Jung adopted the two proposals, which will therefore be submitted to the government in the form of recommendations during a next Interministerial Road Safety Committee (IRB).

Yellow vest in case of emergency

No surprise: "the obligation to have a high visibility vest (automobile type EN471 or EN1150, or similar device)" is extended to the biker and scooter rider population. And "out of equity between users of motorized land vehicles", the CNSR recommends that users of motorcycles and scooters henceforth wear this vest in the event of an emergency stop..

"At the FFMC we were not in favor of this proposal", however remarked France Wolf, representative of the French Federation of angry motorcyclists at the CNSR (above, right), while Philippe Thiebaut, national technical director of the French Motorcycling Federation (FFM), stressed that "bikers invest large sums in equipment. Jackets and jackets are expensive and sometimes already contain retro-reflective elements. There could be a misunderstanding on the part of the bikers if they were fined for not having a vest in an emergency situation, when they already wear this type of jacket ". 

In summary: if the government validates this recommendation of the CNSR, the yellow vest should not necessarily be worn in normal times but only in the event of an emergency (breakdown, accident, etc.), under penalty of a second class fine ( 35 euros).

Plate size

For the sake of simplification, the CNSR also wants the two and three-wheel motor vehicles newly entering the Vehicle Registration System (VMS) to be equipped with a unique 210×130 mm plate. According to the two-wheeler commission, the 170×130 format should no longer be approved because "the diversity of the sizes of 2WD license plates leads to regulatory complexity and a difficulty making the control unfair.".

These two proposals, adopted this morning by a very large majority by the members of the CNSR, will therefore be the subject of recommendations to the government, which will rule at a future IRB..

And soon a vote on interfile traffic

No hands-free kit while driving !

Considering that the use of the telephone while driving increases the risk of accidents by three, the CNSR has also adopted the recommendation to extend the current ban to systems requiring headphones (such as a hands-free pedestrian kit), an earpiece or a headset. . If this recommendation were adopted by the government, only systems preinstalled on vehicles would therefore be accepted – for now…

Bad news for footballers, ministers and other stars of reality television suddenly, since to promote controls, the "too opaque" tints of "front side windows" could be prohibited. Ultimately, this ban could even be extended to all vehicle windows, as desired "on a personal basis" by both Armand Jung and the interministerial delegate for road safety, Frederic Pechenard..

Good point on the other hand for motorcyclists since as the CNSR underlines it, the abandonment of too tinted windows would increase the reciprocal vision of the driver and the other users. However, the two-wheeler commission estimates that 70% of fatal accidents among users of motorized two-wheelers occur during a collision with a moving obstacle, and that "most often, the person confronted indicates that he has not seen the biker "…

Finally, the big news of this CNSR of June 21 is the third "surprise" proposal of the two-wheeler commission chaired by the president of the Mutuelle des Motards: inter-traffic (see in particular).

While the Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls, questioned on this subject by Philippe Thiebaut (national technical director of the FFM), confided that he was there "in a very favorable personal capacity", Patrick Jacquot (president of the Mutuelle des Motards and the CNSR Two-Wheel Commission) publicly presented, a few minutes and a suspension of the meeting later, a proposal "to assess traffic between the lines of the Paris ring road from April 1, 2014".

"For us, users of motorized two-wheelers, it would be an assessment and not an experiment, since the experimentation of this practice has already been carried out for many years, especially on the ring road. Parisian ", said Patrick Jacquot.

Armand Jung however indicated that this proposal could only be put to the vote when it had been formalized in writing. An appointment is therefore made for the next plenary session of the CNSR, to follow of course on Site: stay connected !

Eric MICHEL

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