France’s so-called top cop, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, wants French drivers to slow down.
Accordingly he’s going to cut the speed limit by 10 km/h per hour on roads that where the current limit is 90km/h as part of a safety experiment, French daily Le Parisien reported on Monday. His goal is to further reduce the deaths on France’s roads, which hit an all-time low last year of 3,268.
Experts told Le Parisien reducing speed limits by 10 km/h could save up to 400 lives per year on the country’s roads. France has already made major progress in road safety, but has set a target of of bringing traffic fatalities below 2,000 by 2020.
The only thing drivers hate worse than the cameras are ever lower speed limits. Speculation about the drop in limits has been bubbling for months and has generated an angry reaction from some drivers and motorists’ protection groups. Taken from the local
Val says We are a daft lot really, speed kills and we know this and yet we still regularly break the speed limits.
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