Number of fatalities at 130-km roads tripled

According to a letter to the minister Melanie Schultz (Infrastructure and Environment) has sent this week. In 2014 were 10 deaths on these roads, in 2015 this number rose to 32.

Since the beginning of this year may be driven on roads nineteen 130 kilometers per hour.In total, apply this rate to 66 percent of the roads; eventually this should be 77 percent.

REVISED

The policy to increase the speed limit to 130 kilometers per hour must be revised in accordance with Bert van Wee (Transport Policy, TU Delft). That said the professor Friday inEenVandaag . "I did not expect this increase to be as strong as, but you know that there would be an increase, does not surprise me."

Even opposition party GroenLinks wants the Minister to "immediately reverses" the speed limit. "I can not imagine that Secretary Schultz this to the family, colleagues and the children of these people can explain," said Dutch MP Liesbeth van Tongeren. "I want to hear from the minister why they still can say that it is safer. It is arguably less safe with these figures. "

VICTIMS

The minister has no explanation for the increase in the number of victims, but says in the Volkskrant that no conclusions from the figures can be drawn. Schultz has always claimed from the introduction which 130 should be possible as it can in terms of road safety.

Most fatalities still fall on municipal roads followed by the provinces, the government and the Water Boards. From figures from the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) show that the vast majority of deaths have fallen by 50 roads (127 victims) and 80 roads (145 victims).

http://www.metronieuws.nl/nieuws/ by Els Anchor Photo: ANP / Robin Utrecht