Rome, 23 October 2021 – Arm wrestling on the mobile phone driving in the new highway code. The grillini insist with the sting, one of their amendments to decree 121 on infrastructure safety provides for fines from 422 a 1.697 euro – which stand out at 2.588 euro “if the same person commits a further violation in the course of two years” – with license suspension from one week to two months. Same thing for who you use smartphone or tablet. Hot topic, now under discussion for years. While Istat continues to certify that the distraction when driving is among the most frequent causes of road accidents, has raced against time because the decree 121 must be converted into law by 10 November. Penalty its forfeiture. Giuseppe Donina della Lega, in the Transport Committee in the Chamber, is (almost) certain: “We asked to remove that passage. There is a substantial agreement on this. tightening sanctions for those who abuse disabled parking. So we broke up on Thursday. We’ll see what happens next Monday. “But even the League loses one of its strong points in the discussion. There will be no raising of the limit to 150 on the highway which had been requested by Alessandro Morelli, today Deputy Minister.
Monopattini
And it is always a pitched battle on the helmet for everyone, adults included, one of the news under discussion for months, among the most controversial together with theinsurance obligation (already foreseen for sharing vehicles) and on which an in-depth study is underway at the ministry. The front is composite. On the one hand mayors and driving schools, clamoring for protection after the latest fatal accidents. On the other Assosharing – the association of sustainable mobility in sharing – which opposes the novelty by invoking statistics. In the middle, politics, which will have to decide. The soft line of the agreement reached by the majority does not include that obligation but a series of technical measures, such as arrows, brakes, speed limitation, from 25 to 20 kilometers per hour. It should also come to an identification of the vehicle, copying the system already adopted by the sharing companies, even if it would not be a real license plate. Finally, it is requested to regulate i parking lots. Then there are those who, like the League, want to confiscation for ‘fake’ scooters. The vote in the Commission resumes Monday. The next day you should arrive in the Chamber. Then the move to the Senate.
Sting on the mobile
“It is forbidden for the driver to use radiotelephone equipment while driving or to use headphones”, reads theArticle 173 of the highway code. Which today, in case of infringement, provides for fines from 165 to 660 euros, while the suspension of the driving license from one to three months is triggered only “if the same subject commits a further violation in the course of two years”. With the tight pushed by the grillini instead the suspension will be immediate, at the first offense, from one week to two months. It will concern the use of smartphones, laptops, notebooks, tablets “and similar devices that involve, even only temporarily, the removal of the hands from the wheel”. With fines from 422 to 1,697 euros. In case of recidivism in two years, very severe penalties, from 644 to 2,588 euros and suspension of the driving license from one to three months. Per Luigi Altamura, member of the local police commanders table in Anci, the close “is
essential to reduce the number of accidents, also in light of the increased claims rate after the opening of Covid. On the roads, deaths and injuries are increasing again due to rear-end collisions and autonomous road exits due to distraction. True, there may be some sleepiness but above all the cell phone counts. “The squeeze has been announced for years.summer of 2018 when the then Minister of the 5 Stars Danilo Toninelli he announced to the newspapers: “Off the driving license for those who use a mobile phone while driving”.
Parking lots
The decree also includes the pink stalls. Therefore, the Municipalities will have the possibility of reserving parking spaces for pregnant women or parents of minors under two years of age. These spaces can have a limitation of days and times or, on the contrary, be fixed. However Altamura observes: “There is still one regulationor implementation. There is no road sign for the pink stall. Not only. Even the Ministry of the Interior has pointed out a gap that lends itself to possible abuse, as is already the case for disabled passes. There is talk of pregnant women or parents but it is not said that children under two must be on board. So, in theory, that dad or mom could also use the parking lot to go to work downtown. Just as today there are disabled people who have been bedridden for months or who have died and there are relatives who continue to use the badges “.
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