- saturday 29/02/2020 at 3:40 p.m. – Updated at 3:51 p.m.
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By La Provence (with AFP)
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The new motorcycle license comes into force on Sunday with the creation of a specific road code as flagship measure, announced on Saturday Road Safety which intends by this reform to reduce the excess mortality of bikers. Applicants, who previously had to pass the same theoretical test as those for a car license, will now answer 40 questions “approached from the point of view of the biker”. The price remains the same (30 euros).
The practical tests undergo a grooming. That known as of “plate”, where the candidate must chain maneuvers out of circulation, is reduced from 17 minutes 30 seconds to 10 minutes and relieved of the oral and technical questions, from now on integrated into the code.
The circulating test passes from 35 to 40 minutes and will be evaluated there the control of the “safety trajectory”, “which allows the best visibility at the end of a turn”.
According to Road Safety, 613 bikers died on the roads of mainland France in 2019. They represent 1.6% of road traffic but account for 19% of those killed.
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