Speed ​​limited to 80km / h: the flashes have doubled

Here is a prefect who does not go well enough to the commercial café. Since it affects the wallet and the tranquility in everyday life, the speed limit is a very very public subject. Everyone agrees and if you are not in charge of it, you must have heard someone explain that in this area, it is the state coffers more than road safety that motivate the evolutions. An argument that is pronounced as much at the counter of a bistro, at the coffee machine than at home. As for the change of the speed limit from 90 to 80 km / h in a systematic way, it was necessary to live in a cave not to hear about it.

The debate was to oppose those – very majority – who think that it is useless from a security point of view, to those who have confined themselves to explain that this was what everyone said at the time of motorcycle helmets and seat belts. So when the prefect of the Var took the floor to take stock of the first month of application, he did not realize that he added a lot of water to mills already very active opponents of the measure. " Evoking the results found in his department, Jean-Luc Videlaine explains that the number of" flashes "has doubled since the decline of 10km / h speed tolerated. "The seven automatic radars on the roads now limited to 80 km / h have been reprogrammed and they are flashing more than before: since the implementation, there are even more than twice as many flashes", he summarizes in the columns of Var-Matin, Thursday, July 26. "However, it's not the goal, it's the opposite!", He argues "reads on the site Actu.Orange .