France: Major Reduction In Road Deaths for 2012 - Record |
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File under France Statistics
Author: Mike Werner
Location: Normandy, France
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For once we've got good news coming from France. The number of road deaths and accidents during 2012 has been at an all time low, a record since these figures were recorded (1948). In total for all vehicle types there were "only" 3,645 people killed on the French roads, a significant reduction of 8%. When comparing the statistics between 2011 and 2000 (when a serious effort was undertaken to reduce road accidents), the overall drop has been 52%.
But when you look at all the statistics, motorcycle riders showed the way.... with a reduction of 14.5% in the number of deaths. Although motorcycles have been very good at reducing the number of accidents, they still represent 18% of all road fatalities, while only representing 1.9% of traffic.
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All age groups have reduced the number of fatalities, but the highest risk group is still the 25 to 44 year olds.
There is no gender equality, since 76% of all fatalities are male, while 24% are female, and that has been the case since the year 2000.
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Motorways continue to be the safest place to ride your motorcycle (or other vehicles), while the smaller roads are proving to be very dangerous.
RN = National Road, RD = Departmental (State) Road
Motorways (=autoroutes) are 3 times safer than country roads (and they keep rising toll prices, making it more and more expensive to ride the motorways)
ALCOHOL
During 2012, 31.6% of all deadly accident, representing more than 1,000 people, occurred while the driver was drunk or under influence, a slight increase over previous years.
SUMMARY
So the figures are quite good, even promising. But it does not mean that the French government is going to slow down radar deployment; "au contraire"....the number of new radars are almost being doubled. But one thing is sure, the motorcycle word has shown that they too can be responsible. Now the French government should relax their strong point of view towards bikers.
Via: Minister of Transport
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