(Finance) – The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salviniannounced that it intends to convene a table to update the Traffic Laws – “which is 30 years old” – as early as next week. “In addition to the Procurement Code, we are also dedicating ourselves to another code: we have a Highway Code from 30 years ago with some updates. I would like to convene a table already before the end of the year, next week”, said Salvini during the presentation of the Dekra road safety report.
“I believe that in the most serious cases (of traffic offences, ed.) the revoke he lifetime possibility of driving can and should be considered”, added the minister, noting that anyone who drives “rotten drunk or on drugs is a potential murderer”. The minister underlined the need to “intervene on sanctions not so much economic and penal but on sanctions in terms temporal“.
In view of a probable revision of the Highway Code, Salvini added that “the helmet for those who drive at high speed it is absolutely fundamental”. Just as it would also be fundamental “themandatory disposable breathalyzer on board as well as on board other safety tools are mandatory”. In his opinion, doing the self-test before driving would be useful “to stop until you have time”.
“We will be able to introduce a increase from sanctions (road traffic ed.) based on income“, suggested the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Galeazzo Bignami. “As part of the revision of the highway code that Salvini announced – Bignami specified – we will also carry out a specific study on the possibility of achieving a proportionality between income and penalties, because if the sanction evidently also has an afflictive nature, a person who has a higher income can evidently be afflicted from a point of view of contrasting road safety phenomena with a higher sanction”.