In a gleaming orange R5 car parked on the Quai des Belges, magazines from 1972 litter the back seat. ” Johnny has fun in Tahiti ” and others ” Cloclo takes over the TV » cover the front page of the monthly Hit, thus offering onlookers in the Old Port a journey back in time to a carefree France at the time. Not the pieces of an exhibition on the Yéyé, but rather on the 50 years of road safety, created at that time to ” bend the mortality curve on the roads of France, 345,463 people injured and more than 17,000 deaths being counted that year.
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The effects of prevention over half a century
Ten vehicles of legend » are installed on the Old Port, making it possible to trace in a chronological way the awareness of the dangers of the road as well as the evolutions of the prevention. A Citroën DS 21 and Solex Peugeot immersed in 1973, “ shock year in which 16,861 people died on the road. Confronted with this, ” two strong measures are adopted : the driver and front passenger must fasten their seat belts and wearing a helmet becomes compulsory on motorcycles », underlines a mediator on the spot. Not far away, a Citroën BX whose radio broadcasts INA archives reminds us that between 1983 and 1986, the State established “ a criminal blood alcohol level above 0.8 grams per liter of blood is established “, without counting “ immediate withdrawal of driving license in case of drunkenness “. Examples of measures put in place by Road Safety until today, developed through models that are now cult, like an R19 and an Alpine A610 from the 1990s. While France had 18,034 deaths on the road in 1972, there were 2,944 in 2021.
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