“Who’s making the car tonight?” At least if the group debut lasts until after midnight. The MP for Italia Viva Ettore Rosato has become the first signatory of a bill that prohibits new drivers from transporting passengers by car for less than three years, or for those under the age of twenty-one, between midnight and five in the morning. It reduces traffic accidents among the very young and imposes heavy penalties on those who violate it. Currently, the draft law is being discussed in the transportation committee in the Parliament.
Text and penalties
Rosato proposed to amend article 186-bis of the highway code, adding “limit to nighttime passenger transport by drivers under the age of twenty-one or novice drivers”. The text reads that drivers under the age of twenty-one or newly licensed category B drivers (i.e. those with less than three years of license) will be prohibited from carrying more than one passenger in the vehicle from midnight. Five a.m. Violation of this ban will result in fines ranging from 800 to 3200 euros and a prison sentence of up to six months. If the driver causes an accident, all penalties will be doubled and the vehicle will be ordered to administrative detention for a hundred days: this means you risk a one-year jail sentence.
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The new bill aims to reduce the number of traffic accidents involving very young novice drivers, the so-called “Friday and Saturday night massacres”. Rosato quotes an Istat report: “If we calculate not only drivers and passengers but also pedestrians involved in roadway accidents in 2021, the toll is about 3,000 victims and more than 200,000 injured, as reported in the latest analysis conducted by the National Institute of Statistics.” . The number – we read – is increasing in the age group between the ages of 15 and 29.
According to the assistant of Italia Viva, the biggest reason is the age, lack of experience and early judgment of a young driver. He cites a study by the Road Safety Monitoring Center in the Lazio region:
Teenagers are at a stage of development that limits their ability to perform certain functions, such as planning, impulse control, reasoning, and information integration, as well as being less experienced in driving.
Relatedly, the socializing relationship with friends is another risk factor as it can lead to wrong choices and decisions being made: “Young people often drive in riskier conditions: at night or when they are very tired, after drinking alcohol, the speed is higher than normal. unused”.
The aim should – therefore – “represent a form of deterrence against unsafe driving by limiting the nighttime circulation of the most vulnerable subjects in the company of passengers, which may even constitute an incentive due to the socialization process described earlier”. break the rules of the road”. Currently the proposal remains with the Chamber’s Transport Commission and is extremely harsh for an action that is now considered normal, starting with the proposed sanctions, where all aspects of the design will be considered.
Source: Today IT
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