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Tightened requirements are proposed for A tractors. Alfred Jönsson in Motorburen ungdom doesn’t think it will help.
– If you want to drive illegally, you continue with it, he says.
He does not believe that the rules proposed by the Swedish Transport Agency will have any particular effect.
– Seat belts are not a bad idea and winter tires are just common sense, most people drive with that, says Alfred Jönsson, chairman of Motorburen ungdom in Klippan and just turned 18.
– But to make it more difficult to manipulate them, there are always ways to make it illegal. It’s up to each. If you want to behave, you drive legally.
Disappointed to the limit
The Swedish Transport Agency proposes that technical requirements be introduced to make it more difficult to manipulate the speed limit. Today, police testify that many A tractors are tuned.
– Those who know cars don’t see the problems, then you take other routes. It won’t help, says Alfred Jönsson.
He is most disappointed that today’s speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour is not raised.
– It could have reached 45 anyway. It wouldn’t have been wrong at all. An A-tractor is much safer than a moped car.
However, increasing the speed to 45 kilometers per hour has never been considered, according to the Swedish Transport Agency, because it would require a B driving license and there would thus be an age limit of 18 to be able to drive an A tractor.
“Fewer had trimmed”
As the number of A-tractors has skyrocketed, accidents have also increased, with more seriously injured young people and more deaths.
Alfred Jönsson believes that an increase in the speed limit is what could have had an effect on the accident rate. In that case, fewer people would have tuned their vehicles to even higher speeds, he reasons.
– 30 is so slow and everyone I have spoken to says that if they had been allowed to go 45 they would not have been driving illegally. You will arrive where you are going in an acceptable time.
Great personal responsibility
At the same time, he emphasizes that it is the duty of the A-tractor owners to stay within the framework of the law.
– It is a big personal responsibility not to make the A-tractor illegal. If you can’t perform it then you should probably screw it up.
But a higher speed is also about driving pleasure and a better flow in traffic, he says.
– For those who drive, it stops a lot when the “eps” are at 30.
He clearly notices that the police are checking A tractors to a greater extent than before.
– The police are out a lot more, checking on tractors and doing flying inspections and the like. But it doesn’t affect anyone who behaves.