- The Deux-Sèvres department will raise the speed on 246 km of roads, and the Charente on 450 km.
- The elected officials of these two communities believe that it is mainly individual behavior that is the cause of serious accidents.
After Haute-Marne and Seine-et-Marne, Charente and Deux-Sèvres have just announced the return of maximum speed to 90 km / h on nearly 700 km of roads, we learned Thursday from communities.
"It is a measure of common sense that has been much studied," said Gilbert Favreau (LR), president of the department of Deux-Sèvres, who announced the increase in speed for 246 km of roads on 4,000 km of the departmental network.
The 80 km / h does not allow "to modify in anything the accidentology"
“Our choice fell on busy roads, with traffic. The return to 90 km / h will provide comfort in the time management of users, without jeopardizing their safety, "he said. The replacement of the panels will have a cost: 50,000 euros.
The decision of the government on July 1, 2018 to lower the speed to 80 km / h, the starting point of a sling of motorists, bikers and elected officials, “does not appear as a speed allowing to modify in what be it accidentology, "he said.
A cost of 200,000 euros in Charente
The argument is also taken up in Charente, another rural department in New Aquitaine where the increase in speed to 90 km / h, will concern 450 km of roads, "the busiest", on a network of 5,000, for a total cost of 200,000 euros.
“We did a detailed analysis of the accidentology and we came to the conclusion that it is the individual behaviors, in particular addictive behaviors (under the influence of alcohol and drugs) which are at the origin of 'serious accidents', said François Bonneau (DVD), president of the departmental council of Charente.
According to a census carried out by AFP in December, 25 departments have indicated their intention to return to 90 km / h, a derogation now possible since the promulgation of the law on orientation of mobility (LOM) on December 24.
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