Minister Salvini does not listen to the associations and will not change the new highway code because “3039 victims in 2023 I think are better”. This is the answer he gives to the representation of families who have lost a loved one in road accidents.
Matteo Salvini, speaking at the press conference presenting the UN campaign on road safety “United Nations Global Campaign for Road Safety” at Palazzo Marino, in Milan, confirmed that the text of the new highway code will be approved as it is “by September ”.
The question of Tommaso Goisis, cyclist and activist, who spoke at the conference to ask the Minister a question, received no attention. In these hours, the video on Instagram in which Goisis intervenes and Salvini (does not) respond is making the rounds in Italy.
The cyclist spoke on behalf of the family associations of road victims.
The Minister claims to have listened to the family associations, which is technically true, even if none of the proposals they put forward were accepted in the text. The question was whether the text will be modified to accommodate the proposals of those who have lost a loved one in a road accident.
says the activist.
For example, a request from the Michele Scarponi Foundation is to modify the article that imposes a safety distance of one and a half meters from cyclists, removing the phrase “where road conditions allow it”, which effectively makes the article inapplicable and dangerous.
asks the spokesperson for the families of the road victims. To this question, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport provides a surreal answer.
The new text of the highway code was obviously drawn up not only with the associations, which were not “formally involved”, but “listened to at length”. Furthermore, there are also some institutions such as the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice with which it is necessary to compare the texts.
Salvini pressed.
Therefore I believe that the Road Safety Bill represents a big step forward and I hope that it will obtain final approval in Parliament by September. And I’m sure that the 3039 deaths in 2023 can be better.
For the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, over 3000 deaths per year from road accidents “are getting better”. And he managed to say all this right in front of the families who lost a loved one on the road, families who intervened to ask for changes to the text so that no one else has to go through the same terrible experience.
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