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Penalty Points System on Driver's Licence Lowers Accident Rate
The study appears in the Accident Analysis and Prevention journal.
"We studied every accident reduction measure on an individual basis and we estimated the reduction percentage corresponding to the penalty points system driver's license, a legal reform that entered into force in Spain in the summer of 2006, which had already been implemented in several countries like Austria, Japan or Ireland," said José Ignacio Castillo Manzano, US researcher and study co-author.
The effects of this measure were analysed based on four different variables: deaths in highway, deaths in city accidents, injured in highway and injured in city accidents.
The penalty points system driver's license resulted in an average reduction of 12.6 per cent in the number of deaths in highway accidents over the two years after the law coming into force, following an initial impact during the first month of 16.3 per cent, the study found. With respect to the number of people injured in the city and in the highway, the measure had a similar initial impact, but the effects disappeared quickly within less than a year, specifically nine and eleven months, respectively.
Regarding the fourth highway safety indicator, the number of deaths in urban accidents, researchers did not find any effect caused by said reform.
"In the case of deaths in the city, specific reforms must be designed for the purposes of reducing them because it's a variable that follows a dynamic that is totally different from the rest," said the expert.
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