Safety Dutch traffic drops due to lack of enforcement
Posted on 20-06-2016 at 7:42 by CasperH – 68 Comments”
The police less against violations, and therefore the Dutch movement increasingly unsafe, according to a research report.
That report is the result of research carried out by the ETSC, the European Transport Safety Council. The statements follow on the post earlier this year that for the first time since 2001, with more crash victims to be mourned in both Europe and the Netherlands.
There are in 2015 621 people to the life in the Dutch traffic, an increase of 9 percent. According to the director of the ETSC has a reduced enforcement here double fault. To begin the dangerous road users less likely to get caught, and also realize people that the chances of getting caught are lower, allowing them to take more risks in traffic. As a result the number of deaths is not down.
In the Netherlands, it decreased the number of fines for phoning behind the wheel an average of 22% per year since 2010, fines for not wearing a seat belt decreased in the same period by 30% per year and the number of snelheidsboetes decreased by an average of 4% per year, the ETSC. Moreover, that assertion is in conflict with earlier reports about the increase of the number of fines in the Netherlands. Also, you can argue that some of the studies correctly argue for the abolition of rules. In any case, we are in the Netherlands, most often the kid, we packed up 6.6 million in fines in 2015.
The SWOV (Foundation for Scientific Research, road Safety) states that the Netherlands does not meet the expectations. The decrease in the number of fines can have several causes: higher fine amounts (which makes people less risk dared to take), improved handling, more attention to crime prevention and the abolition of the quotas for police officers would all make their own contribution to the decrease of the number of fines.
The majority of road accident victims in the EU (there were last year 26,000 people) are due to speeding, alcohol, not wearing a seat belt and calling behind the wheel. The research report of the ETSC is to be found here.
Fotocredit: Autojunk.nl