A road accident always causes at least two victims: the accident victim and the driver.
However, the toll is not limited to the death toll but to broken destinies and bruised families.
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If the law penalizes the driver's irresponsibility when, for example, he consumes drugs or too much alcohol, what about cases where physical incapacity to drive is responsible for an accident?
Until then, impunity is total.
However, our physical abilities can affect us at any age.
Loss of vision, reflexes slowed by old age, various disabilities after an illness... We are subject to transformations in our body.
Throughout our lives, we do check-ups, medical certificates, for work, for sport.
How come nothing is done to test our ability to drive?
Isn't it a contradiction when, in a car, it is a question of protecting those we transport and those we pass?
This medical visit is nothing more than a seat belt for ourselves, as well as those we love.
Some athletes at the Paris Paralympic Games, like Pauline Déroulède, were victims of road accidents.
Hit by a car driven by a 92-year-old man who lost his control.
Left leg amputated.
Thanks to her courage, her determination and the strength of those around her, she knew how to fight and rise to the highest level of world tennis.
How many are not lucky enough to be surrounded by their misfortune?
This gentleman, feeling guilty, says today:
“if there had been a law, I would have respected it”
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We are all drivers like millions of other Europeans and we are campaigning to ensure that these kinds of accidents no longer happen.
We are campaigning for a medical examination to reassure everyone about their fitness to drive.
A small, normal gesture to save lives.
Europe is now paving the way for a driving aptitude test every 15 years, which notably includes an eyesight test.
Our Italian neighbors are already doing it.
From the age of 50, drivers must undergo a medical examination at their driving school.
In the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Spain and Portugal, tests are already being carried out.
What are we waiting for?
This medical visit is nothing more than a seat belt for ourselves, as well as those we love.
The petitioners :
Pauline Déroulède (Paralympic athlete), Karima Delli (MEP, president of the Transport Commission in the European Parliament), Dominique Riquet (MEP), Michel Cymes (surgeon), Raphaël Glucksmann (MEP), Yannick Jadot (senator), Jean Todt (UN special envoy for road safety). Leila Chaïbi (European MP), HSH Prince Albert II.