Puy-de-Dôme returns to 90 km / h on several roads

Monday August 1, 6,000 km of Puy-de-Dôme road goes back to 90 km/h. “Today, we have, indeed, a study which shows us that the accidentology is not more important from 80 to 90 km/h on our road of Puy-de-Dôme“, says Lionel Chauvin, president of the Puy-de-Dôme departmental council, who had made this decision a campaign promise. Users welcome the measure. “It doesn’t make a big difference to me, I found that between 80 and 90, the danger was almost the same“, commented a motorist.

At the same time, the department lowers the speed to 70 km / h or 50 km / h in 330 areas close to homes. “The price of the toll may very well encourage a certain number of French people to postpone their journeys to the secondary network which, in any case, is a more accident-prone network than the motorway network.“, argues Anne Lavaud, general delegate of the Road Prevention association. Nearly half of the French departments have returned to 90 km / h.