The number of fatalities and serious injuries in traffic will continue to increase in the coming years, fears Traffic Safety Netherlands. This is mainly because more and more people use their smartphone behind the wheel and the elderly stay longer in circulation.
In April showed that for the first time the number of traffic fatalities in the Netherlands more than 40 years has risen sharply. In 2014 570 Dutch lost their lives in traffic. Last year there were 621. An increase of 9 percent.
The Director of Traffic Safety Netherlands, Felix Cohen, wants the law regulates that a smartphone goes out automatically if you travel faster than 30 km / h. “It’s so that we average 220 times a day looking at our smartphone. Also behind the wheel or bicycle. Highly dangerous course, and that behavior we have to tackle,” Cohen said today in The Guardian.
According to Cohen road too little priority to the police: “The police are doing far too little to enforcement in this area I also know that they are getting more and more tasks on their plate, but made choices. should be, it is the alcohol and bicycle light controls die first. ”
The VVN director is pleased that the elderly stay longer mobile, but argues that there “a high price is paid for.” He soon expects the first “Pokémon dead ‘in traffic, because people everywhere at unexpected moments, with the smartphone hunting go to the critters in the popular game.
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