“Approved by summer” –

New highway code, Salvini wants to approve it by the summer. «I hope that the highway code will be approved by the summer. It will bring more controls, more rigor, more seriousness, and I hope fewer deaths and fewer accidents.” Thus the deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, on the sidelines of the Neapolitan stage of “L’Italia dei yes”, on the death of the two carabinieri in the accident that occurred in Campagna (Salerno).

Salvini told reporters that he had met “some family members of the road victims who lost their children” and added. «With the new highway code, the use of any drug involves the blocking of the car and the withdrawal of the license, without any ifs or justifications. We foresee more severe sanctions for those who abandon animals, for those who use mobile phones, and for those who speed. Of course we cannot predict common sense by decree, we cannot predict by decree whether a mother, according to the first checks, drinks, takes drugs, then gets behind the wheel risking killing herself and then killing people. We will try to explain right from the first year of primary school what you risk when you start driving a car or a moped and are unable to do so. But I’m happy because, after 30 years of the old highway code, we’re bringing back some order and common sense to Italian roads. If you get behind the wheel in indecent conditions you pay the consequences.”