“In the first 9 months of this year there were no fewer than 3,138 crashes involving a driver under the influence of alcohol. This is the highest number since 2016,” said Gilkinet, who kicked off the BOB winter campaign earlier this week. In his programmatic note for 2023, presented to the Chamber, the minister therefore wants to give a signal on more severe penalties for risky behavior.
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“I am in favor of immediate driver’s license withdrawal at 1.2 promille instead of 1.5,” Gilkinet says. It would therefore be a temporary withdrawal before the driver has to appear in court.
“The only thing you can use when driving is the steering wheel, because mobile phones or drinks are too distracting and make you less alert,” underlined the minister in an email response. “We can not only accept these terrible data on road safety, but they must spur us to action. As Minister of Mobility, I have been working on it for two years, with measures that are slowly taking shape”.
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