France | Local/public authority

The Trets City Council is a territorial administration. The city has some 10,000 inhabitants.

In order to reduce accidents in the Trets region, particularly among young people and two-wheeled vehicle drivers, we aim to carry out the following actions:

• We will organise awareness activities for young drivers (who have been in possession of a driving licence from six months to three years). Each action will take place over one day and will include a morning practical session followed by self-assessment, then a preventative driving training session. In 2006, we aim to hold nine such days for about ten young people a day.
• We will organise a VIE (Vehicle, Individual, Environment) training meeting in the city school. This preventative action will take place over a one-day period and will be based on the risks linked to driving motorcycles. It will involve some 200 young people.
• We will pass on the message of the Road Safety Week by organising a Road Safety Day in the city on 14 October 2006. On this occasion, we will set up booths and activities (such as testing reflexes and sight, using a loss of roadholding simulator, etc.).
• We will organise in September or October 2006 an information day on the risks of two-wheeled vehicles, aimed at motorcyclists, which will involve training for safer driving. We aim to reach some 15 people on a volunteer basis.

These actions may be continued, after evaluation, in 2007 and 2008.