Salvini is stepping up. “The 30 km/h limit across the city of Bologna does not seem to be a reasonable choice,” according to a memo from the Ministry of Transport, led by the leader of the Northern League. “The problems of citizens (especially workers) risk being greater than the benefits related to road safety, which […]
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Mobility: Italy has one of the highest motor vehicle rates in Europe
According to Istat’s Noi Italia 2023 report, Italy ranks third in Europe. motorization rate It ranks behind Poland with 675 vehicles per thousand people, Poland with 687 cars per thousand people, and Luxembourg with 681 cars per thousand people. Our country is well above the European average with 567 cars per thousand people, and its […]
Highway code, fines of up to 2600 euros for mobile phone while driving: all the news
The Council of Ministers approved the text of the DDL and the law that allows changes to the Highway Code and new road safety rules with “fixing wild radars and a hard line for repeat offenders who do not respect the rules”. The package, presented in June and strongly supported by the Minister of Infrastructure […]
“Hello agents; there’s a car going against traffic”. But it was he who went in the wrong direction
He called 911 to report a car going in the wrong direction, but when agents arrived at the scene, they discovered the caller was driving in the wrong direction. The man was arrested: It was later found that the level of alcohol in his blood was equal to the allowable level. The incident took place […]
New Highway Law: Race car ban, cell phone and alcohol restrictions for 3 years for novice drivers
Big-engined cars are banned for three years for newly licensed drivers (while the ban now only applies for the first year), no license for repeat offenders caught behind the wheel under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The revision of the Highways Law requested by the government starts here. Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini recently announced […]
European country that cut deaths on the roads by half
The improvement was obvious. Poland reduced road deaths by 47% between 2012 and 2022. This is what the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) notes, which awarded Warsaw the Road Safety Performance Index award Index for 2023. Instead, last year Lithuania won. The Polish government has achieved these results thanks to a large-scale effort to implement […]
Two young men die in motorcycle crashes
Two young men died in the midst of traffic accidents happened in less than 12 hours in the municipality of Soledad and Juan de Acosta, on the Atlantic coast, indicating that the “excessive speed” would be linked to one of the accidents. According to the authorities’ report, the recently The situation arose yesterday, Sunday, at […]