Road Safety: the new scourge of motorists in the city | TF1 | Appels d'urgence

It’s a black spot on the road safety record: accidents in the city. They represent nearly 70% of traffic accidents. And the city with the highest number is Paris. More than twenty accidents per day, totaling more than seven thousand injures and nearly forty deaths per year… To try to understand the reasons behind such slaughter we spent several months accompanying the services responsible for the fight against motorists in the cities. What the reporters discovered is instructive: in the cities, stress and impatience push many drivers to commit offence after offence and imagine that they can do anything in order to gain a few seconds… On four wheels or two, making a U-turn in the street and driving the wrong way, for example, have become normal practices. The program also highlights a worrisome phenomenon: the danger posed by certain delivery vans. Despite their power and their limited visibility, they can be driven without any special training and, in the hands of irresponsible drivers, they regularly turn into death traps for cyclists and pedestrians alike.