(Finance) – “It is positive that the Government and the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, have focused attention on the reform of the Highway Code, with a bill that will soon be presented in Parliament and which places greater attention on road safety in Italy,” he said tones PurcarusExecutive Vice President DEKRA Group and President DEKRA Italy. “It is very important to sensitize the new generations, also through information campaigns in schools, as they live there mobility as a real sharing service, through the use of sharing platforms. All the more reason, in the light of recent news events, I agree with the intention of the Minister Salvini to implement the safety rules to be applied both to novice drivers, by increasing controls and tightening penalties, and to scooter users, to also protect pedestrians from any dangers of incorrect or dangerous driving”.
According to Purcaro: “It is also necessary to monitor the state of use of means of urban sharingas passing from one user to another they require constant verification of the level of safety. In this regard, DEKRA carries out 28 million revisions every year worldwide, as well as testing the standards of physical and digital security of new generation vehicles to make them increasingly performing and automated”.
“As we know – concludes Purcaro – in the period January-June 2022, Istat recorded 81,437 road accidents with injuries to people and 1,450 victims, so it is necessary to understand that the safety road in our country must become one question cultural: we must raise awareness that safety is not an optional, but a right for everyone”.