2023-06-20 16:40:35
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 48 minutes ago, Updated 15 minutes ago
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The measure will come into force in January 2024. The Prime Minister underlined the “real plus” for young apprentices. Several associations expressed their hostility.
The government will lower the age for driving alone from 2024 to 17, instead of the current 18, announced Élisabeth Borne on Tuesday June 20 on the online media Brut.
«From January 2024, it will be possible to pass the driving license from the age of 17 and drive from the age of 17“, instead of 18 years, said the Prime Minister, stressing that this measure would be “a real plusespecially for young apprentices.
Extended financial assistance
Currently, a young person in accompanied driving can already pass the B license at 17, but only has the right to drive by himself on the day of his 18th birthday. This threshold will therefore be lowered by one year. The aid of 500 euros paid to apprentices to finance their license will also be extended to students in vocational high schools, added the head of government.
While road accidents are the leading cause of death among young people aged 18 to 24, Elisabeth Borne promised to be “very attentive to the level requiredto obtain the permit. The government is alsoin the process of strengthening the road safety certificates to make them sort of pre-codes“, she added, assuring that there was “no more accidentsin neighboring countries who have a driving license at 17 years old.
We are the opposite of what should be done.
Jean-Yves Lamant, president of the League once morest road violence
Several associations have expressed their hostility to the lowering. “We are the opposite of what needs to be done to halve the number of road deaths by 2030“, lamented Jean-Yves Lamant, president of the League once morest road violence, recalling that road accidents are “the leading cause of death among young people“. For Anne Lavaud, general manager of the Road Prevention association “it’s really not a good idea, it’s finally solving a problem with a new risk».
Pierre Chasseray, general delegate of 40 million motorists, supports the lowering of the age but prefers a license scenario at 17 years following accompanied driving “for the interesting progressiveness». «If it can allow some young people, especially in rural areas, to travel for necessary activities, jobs or access to healthcare, we are for».
roadmap for youth
The ECF driving school group expressed in a press release its “unwavering support” to this lowering of the age but wished that this measure be “accompanied by mandatory post-licence training“. The measures unveiled on Tuesday are part of the roadmap for youth that the Prime Minister is due to present to Matignon on Wednesday, in the presence of around fifteen ministers and young people whom she has regularly brought together for six months on various themes, following the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) on youth in December.
Parliament for its part definitively adopted on June 12 a Macronist bill to better inform young people regarding the financing of the driving license and to reduce the time before the exam. Without an absolute majority in the National Assembly, the executive said it wanted to focus on concrete measures to change the daily life of the French in order to relaunch Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term following the pension crisis.
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