The recent death of a 7-year-old girl, hit by a driver, raised here the question of the influence of car advertising and a clearly insufficient sanction for violations of the Highway Safety Code (CSR). Another aspect of the problem is the lack of continuous training for motorists. The CSR was revised in 2018, the road environment is constantly changing, new signs appear, but drivers who received their license decades ago can continue to use a machine with lethal force, almost for life , without any updating of their knowledge. […] Several notions deserve to be reviewed during a requalification session with an eliminatory exam. The exercise should be repeated every five or ten years, and after a serious violation. This summer, as part of Vélo Québec’s Cycliste Aware training, a schoolgirl asked me what was the point of making her hand signals if adults didn’t know them. Having myself seen drivers wave to a child who signaled a right turn with his left arm, I only found the answer to him that his gesture constituted a form of popular education…
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