More and more French people are complaining about the speed in front of their homes and demanding emergency measures.
The case of this resident of Lot, who testifies to TF1, is edifying.
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“This is what happens all the time“. Sandrine is exasperated. The house of this resident of Figeac (Lot), where she has lived for twenty years, is located on a major bend, and on her doorstep, many vehicles drive too fast, especially at night. “At 2 a.m., with the speed because they are alone in the world on the road, they do not pass this bend, and they end up in our vehicles,” she explains in the TF1 news report here -above.
In total, she records around ten accidents right in front of her house. Several vehicles were hit, but the garage door, gate and low wall were also hit.
Last weekend, a 4×4 hit the two vans that Sandrine had parked in front of her house. She goes to the mechanic this morning, and he doesn’t have good news. “This one cost 10,000 euros in repairs, but the other one, on the other hand, is broken“, he announces. One van is being repaired, and the other is being scrapped, even though they are this trader’s working tools. “We’ve had many, many accidents, but we’ve never had both at the same time…“, she comments.
Sandrine and her partner feel permanently insecure. She shows our camera another photo (image below) on my smartphone: “The person broke my wall, broke my gate, went through the embankment, and with his momentum, he ended up the roof of my vehicle,” she says. Before adding: “If we manage to develop this road so that we can finally live in peace… I love my house, I want to stay at home. But if this continues after that, I’m going to leave“.
Improvements are also what neighbor Frédéric is calling for. “Believe me, it goes very fast, all the time, all the timehe curses. We should still take an initiative to slow people down.”. A few years ago, communities lowered the limit from 80 to 50 km/h, without much success. Today, they say they are taking the problem head on. “We will very quickly strengthen the signage, or even reduce the speed further, and then ask the gendarmerie to carry out checks and issue fines.“, assures TF1 André Mellinger, the mayor of Figeac. The communities will meet in December to discuss the issue.
