INTERVIEW
Three weeks after the start of deconfinement, the French are gradually continuing their return to the roads. But the consequences of this return of vehicles in numbers since May 11 worry Road Safety, which spoke on Saturday of "first alarming figures". Invited Tuesday of Europe 1, Laurent Collorig, colonel of gendarmerie and head of the coordination unit of fight against road insecurity with the Ministry of the Interior, confirms in particular an increase in fatal accidents.
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During the week following that of the deconfinement, "we noted that there were fewer accidents, fewer injured, but more killed," he explains, adding that "the accidents were much more violent. , because the traffic did not return to its normal rhythm, and people continued to drive as if they felt alone on the road. "
"We are mobilized to fight excessive speed"
According to the guest of Europe 1, the increase over this week following the deconfinement is "about 40% of those killed" compared to that same week in 2019. However, Laurent Collorig still specifies, this figure is not final.
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The authorities also constant "more and more big speeding", above 50 km / h above the limit, continues Laurent Collorig, with an increase of 15% since the end of confinement. "We are very mobilized to fight against this excessive speed," he concludes.