Stopping the massacres on Italian roads and highways where last year there were more than three thousand victims: this is the objective of the government which is working on a decree law for next month with the introduction of the first road safety regulations.
“The infrastructure decree will arrive by April with a first package of emergency measures and then an organic revision of the Highway Code with the parliamentary procedure to be completed by the summer of next year”, explained the deputy prime minister and transport minister and Infrastructures, Matteo Salvini, after the meeting at MIT with associations, universities and experts on road safety, underlining that the current rules “are decades old”. The text will then pass from “a sharing with other ministries starting with the Interior Ministry and Justice as well as from parliamentary scrutiny”, the minister explained again. Rattling off some data, Salvini recalled that last year “there were 3,120 victims” on the roads, with “distraction being the primary cause of accidents”. And still on the roads, “vertical signs are outlawed in 60% of cases” while “horizontal signs are outlawed in 90% of cases”, the deputy prime minister pointed out.
In the Infrastructure decree there will also be “the theme of scooters”, added Salvini, referring to the tightening announced in recent days. In fact, MIT is thinking about the introduction of helmets and license plates for scooters.
A few days ago the Deputy Minister of Transport, Galeazzo Bignami, had spoken of interlocutions with companies that deal with sharing. “The state has a duty to ensure that the means are used in complete safety. And it is therefore necessary that those who make scooters available also make helmets and personal protective equipment available,” said the deputy minister.
According to Assosharing data, the accident rate of sharing scooters records a decrease, in 2022 compared to 2021, equal to 80% compared to distances traveled and 78% compared to the number of rentals. The number of accidents with injuries to people involving shared micromobility vehicles (bicycles, mopeds and scooters) rose from 536 in 2021 to 172 in 2022. “The major criticalities are linked to private vehicles which are not subject to the same rigid controls on sharing” and there are “multiple models that do not comply with the ministerial directives updated in August 2022”, says the association, underlining that sharing “has demonstrated” that “a precise application of the rules already in force drastically reduces the risk of accidents”. Therefore it is necessary “to intervene on the controls to curb the sale of non-compliant vehicles, also tightening the sanctioning profile”, points out the president of Assosharing, Matteo Tanzilli.
Source: Ansa
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