According to figures from the Guarantee Fund for compulsory damage insurance, revealed to you exclusively by Europe 1 and Le Figaro on Thursday, there are more and more drivers without insurance in France.
Over the past six years, there have been 7% more and they are the cause of increasingly violent accidents.
It is a scourge almost impossible to contain that plagues our roads: drivers without insurance.
According to new figures from the Guarantee Fund for compulsory damage insurance (FGAO) revealed exclusively by Europe 1 and Le Figaro on Thursday, they would be 800,000 across the country, or 7% more than 6 years ago.
In 2019, the FGAO compensated for less than 28,000 road accidents.
So in an attempt to turn things around, the Guarantee Fund is launching a national awareness campaign this Thursday morning: "By driving without insurance, you can ruin your existence".
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Increasingly violent behavior
Because if the figures for road accidents are declining globally, the damage caused by uninsured drivers is exploding: last year, the Guarantee Fund disbursed 101 million euros, a figure up 42% since 2014 which shows an "increase in medical costs" for the victims, explains to the microphone of Europe 1 Julien Rencki, the general director of the FGAO.
A violence experienced by Gaëtan Crevier 2 years ago, one summer evening in Paris.
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"I know that I will suffer all my life"
Cut down by a man on a scooter who slalom at full speed on a sidewalk, he is seriously injured.
Fractured knee, bone graft, plate and pins in the leg ... the future of the young restorer is in jeopardy.
"I will receive around 32,000 euros from the guarantee fund, a good sum, but besides that I will not recover either my knee or my shin, and I know that I will suffer all my life", testifies he.
"I may even have to have other operations if the bone grafts went wrong."
And with the increase in violent behavior by uninsured drivers observed by the Guarantee Fund, the phenomenon may even worsen.