{"id":3404,"date":"2016-11-22T21:45:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2016-11-22T21:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:47:46","slug":"changes-to-road-traffic-act-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2016\/changes-to-road-traffic-act-mauritius\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Road Traffic Act Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to L&#8217;express, today the Ministers were supposed to discuss about changes to\u00a0Road Traffic Act: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexpress.mu\/article\/294209\/amendements-au-road-traffic-act-ce-que-risquent-chauffards\">Amendements \u00e0 la Road Traffic Act: ce que risquent les chauffards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3405\" src=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vlcsnap-2016-11-22-21h43m52s26-1024x576.png\" alt=\"vlcsnap-2016-11-22-21h43m52s26\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vlcsnap-2016-11-22-21h43m52s26-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vlcsnap-2016-11-22-21h43m52s26-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vlcsnap-2016-11-22-21h43m52s26-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vlcsnap-2016-11-22-21h43m52s26-1272x716.png 1272w, https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vlcsnap-2016-11-22-21h43m52s26.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>&#8220;Conduite dangereuse entra\u00eenant la mort<\/h2>\n<p>Un individu qui a caus\u00e9 la mort d\u2019une personne en se rendant coupable de conduite dangereuse sera passible, apr\u00e8s condamnation, d\u2019une amende variant entre Rs 25 000 et Rs 50 000 et d\u2019une peine d\u2019emprisonnement ne d\u00e9passant pas cinq ans.Actuellement, l\u2019emprisonnement maximal est de trois ans pour ce d\u00e9lit&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Conduite imprudente en \u00e9tat d\u2019ivresse<\/h2>\n<p>Un conducteur reconnu coupable d\u2019avoir caus\u00e9 la mort d\u2019une autre personne alors qu\u2019il \u00e9tait en \u00e9tat d\u2019ivresse sera passible d\u2019une peine d\u2019emprisonnement de cinq ans au maximum, au lieu de trois ans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dunno actual the benefits caused by keeping someone in jail for\u00a02 more years on the expense\u00a0of Mauritian tax payers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>&#8220;En cas d\u2019accident<\/h2>\n<p>Jusqu\u2019\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent, le conducteur impliqu\u00e9 dans un accident a quatre heures pour le rapporter \u00e0 la police. Ce d\u00e9lai sera ramen\u00e9 \u00e0 une heure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm. Purpose?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Le r\u00f4le d\u2019un magistrat<\/h2>\n<p>Un magistrat aura d\u00e9sormais la possibilit\u00e9 de suspendre le permis d\u2019un conducteur arr\u00eat\u00e9 avec un taux d\u2019alcool au-dessus de la limite autoris\u00e9e, \u00e0 la demande de la police et avant m\u00eame qu\u2019il ait \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnu coupable en cour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What?\u00a0Can&#8217;t understand anything. What&#8217;s the difference between &#8220;reconnu coupable&#8221; and having higher alcohol level in blood? Either you broke the law or you did not. WTF?<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, <strong>forget the Ministers and their shows<\/strong>. What do YOU\u00a0think will really reduce accident on Mauritian roads?<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replace roundabouts by flyovers. Might cost a lot but much less than what the ministers spend\u00a0abroad in 1 year alone.<\/li>\n<li>Add more reflective road markings.<\/li>\n<li>Remove humps on the roads to reduce stress fir drivers.<\/li>\n<li>Add more speed cameras but increase the speed limit so as to still make it drivable. Some places the speed limit is at 60km\/h for no reason despite the car naturally wants to go at 80km\/h.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to L&#8217;express, today the Ministers were supposed to discuss about changes to\u00a0Road Traffic Act: Amendements \u00e0 la Road Traffic Act: ce que risquent les chauffards The article states: &#8220;Conduite dangereuse entra\u00eenant la mort Un individu qui a caus\u00e9 la mort d\u2019une personne en se rendant coupable de conduite dangereuse sera passible, apr\u00e8s condamnation, d\u2019une &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2016\/changes-to-road-traffic-act-mauritius\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Changes to Road Traffic Act Mauritius<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,211,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-government","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}