The number of accidents involving a pedestrian increases by 42 % in November compared to October.
Le Monde with AFP
Approaching time change, road safety makes prevention. It recalled Wednesday, October 26, the importance of visible on the public highway on Wednesday, October 26, just before going to winter time, where a peak of accidentality is observed each year on weekends depending on its implementation.
“Road safety reminds pedestrians, cyclists and scooters users, the importance of making themselves visible, and invites motorists to redouble vigilance towards these vulnerable users”, wrote the organization in a press release.
France will spend at winter time on the night of Saturday to Sunday, so it will be dark earlier. The number of accidents involving a pedestrian increases recurrently by 42 % in November, compared to the month of October, according to data from the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory (ONISR) collected between 2015 and 2019.
“In the headlights of a car, the other users are visible only 20 meters when dressed in black. Gold, 50 km/h, a car needs at least 25 meters to stop On dry ground (38 meters on wet ground). With reflective accessories, they are visible at 150 meters, “recalled road safety.
The body thus encourages vulnerable users to “wear clear clothes and opt for retroreflective devices (vest, armband, gloves, bands on the backpack, the satchel, etc.)”
Good reflexes not applied
According to a study by the Assurance Prévention Association, 82 % of French people are worried about their safety when visibility decreases: at night, at dusk or in the event of fog. Cyclists are the most numerous to feel vulnerable when visibility decreases (to 90 %), followed by motorized two-wheelers (85 %) and users of electric scooters and other motorized personal travel machines (EPDM, 82 %).
If the right reflexes are known – 70 % of those questioned believe to adopt them on the public highway – they are not systematically applied. Only 73 % of pedestrians systematically use sidewalks when visibility is reduced and 29 % wear clear clothes. Half of the cyclists do not systematically wear reflective accessories. A electric scooter, 38 % of users do not systematically light their lights.
The study was carried out online from October 6 to 11, 2022 by Harris Interactive for the Assurance Prévention association, with a sample of 2,039 people representative of the French aged 18 and over.