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80 km / h limit: 40 million motorists cites the example of Denmark

Speed ​​cameras - Limitation to 80 km-h: 40 million motorists cites the example of Denmark -

The association 40 million motorists and the senator of Vienna Alain Fouche presented this morning to the press the example of Denmark, where the speed limit on the secondary network has just gone from 80 to 90 km / h at the same time. where France is preparing to do the opposite…

Before the government’s plan to lower the maximum speed to 80 km / h instead of 90 on the secondary network (the "two-way roads without a central separator", that is to say about 400,000 km) was examined by the "experts" of the Interministerial Road Safety Committee (IRB) on January 18, 2018, 40 million motorists attracted the attention of the media – and that of ministers, elected officials, advisers or any other living organization gifted with reflection – on the Danish example…

  • MNC of December 19, 2017 :

With the help of a video shot in Denmark, presented to the Senate this morning to the press along with Senator Alain Fouche, the association demonstrates the absurdity of the French project. In short: when Danish roads were limited to 80 km / h, the average speed observed was 89 km / h. After an experiment carried out on 106 km of roads limited to 90 for three years, Danish drivers have driven an average of … 89.1 km / h !

"What causes the accident is the difference between the prescribed speed limit and the acceptability"

Thanks to the reduction of the differential between on the one hand those who drive 10 km / h below the limits anyway and on the other hand those who feel that the limit is not suitable and sometimes overtake recklessly, not only the average speed has remained more or less the same, but above all accidents – in particular frontal collisions due to dangerous overtaking – have decreased by 11% and deaths by 13%…

"I was in favor of this increase (from 80 to 90 km / h, Editor’s note) because what caused the accident is the difference between the prescribed speed limit and the acceptability", estimates John Sckaletz, analyst Danish road traffic police.

On Danish highways where the maximum authorized speed has dropped from 110 to 130 km / h, the authorities have noted a 56% decrease in accidents and a 61% drop in the number of fatalities. "The decision was taken to increase the speed limit on the motorway network because the average speeds observed were around 120 to 122 km / h", confirms Adriaan Schelling, consultant for the Danish Roads Authority: "after l ‘increase in limitation, average speeds remained the same, around 122 or 124 km / h ".

"Radars have only one objective: to fill the state coffers on the backs of motorists"

Asked by Site, the centrist senator from Vienne Alain Fouche – known for his refreshing freedom of tone about radars, to which we owe in particular the – believes that the French project unfortunately has every chance of success.

"It will make you growl, but it risks passing by decree, therefore without a vote of Parliament", slips us this childhood friend of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who considers himself "too old to ride a motorcycle" (75 years , Editor’s note), but remembers with emotion his rides in 125 and his climb of Alpe d’Huez in the parental Buick, at the dawn of the 1950s, which ended … in a tractor!

  • MNC of 5 December 2017 :
  • MNC of December 13, 2017 :
  • MNC of December 18, 2017 :

"All-radar policy: I blame!", Recently denounced the senator (above surrounded by Daniel Quero, president of 40 million motorists, and Pierre Chasseray, general delegate): "I have denounced for several years this system which does not respond to any road safety policy for motorists but has only one objective: to fill the State coffers on the backs of motorists! "

While waiting for the CNSR of January 18, Mr. Fouche submitted a written question to the government in which he questions the Minister of the Interior on the limits of the all-radar policy.

"If there are more accidents on departmental and national roads it is not because the authorized speed is too high there but because of the state of the roads which cannot be improved as long as the State continues. not to donate to the departments the endowments due to him ", estimates the senator who would like the 920.3 million euros collected by the radars in 2016 to be more generously distributed to the local authorities responsible in particular for the maintenance of the roads…

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