In 2022, the city of Paris paid more than two million euros in compensation for road accidents, an amount that has risen sharply even if the number of files accepted is falling, underlines the town hall.
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Last year, the city of Paris compensated 149 victims of bodily accidents occurring on the public highway and 288 victims of vehicle accidents, she told AFP, confirming information from the Parisian.
Their cost for the municipality, which exceeds two million euros, is up sharply compared to 2019, when it amounted to 1.2 million euros.
For opponent LR Aurlien Vron, the fact that the amount of these compensations has doubled over the past six years proves that the average severity of these accidents has increased markedly, due to maintenance faults or poor design or poor workmanship.
Roads assistant David Belliard, for his part, suggests a kind of insurance inflation and an overall trend of legalization of reports.
At the same time, the number of files is decreasing, he points out to AFP: of 599 people compensated in 2019 (428 vehicle accidents and 171 bodily injuries), the Paris Council compensated 437 in 2022 (288 and 149).
This obviously remains too important, but Paris is an extremely dense city with two million inhabitants and four million people who pass through it, underlines the elected ecologist.
We do not know how many procedures have not been successful, retorts the opponent Aurlien Vron.
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The poor maintenance of the public highway, in particular the roadway and the sidewalks, is a recurring criticism of the opponents of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo, in particular grouped on Twitter under the keyword #SaccageParis.
At the end of his first mandate, when the subject had appeared, we had reached a level that was too low in terms of allocated resources, recognizes David Belliard, who highlights the effort made since 2020, as a priority, to increase the means.
We have gone from a function budget of 7.9 million euros in 2020 to 13 million in 2022, underlined the elected environmentalist during the last Paris council in December.
On the DansMaRue application, a veritable notebook of grievances from the daily life of Parisians, the feedback concerning the deterioration of the roadway has been in constant decline since last April, he had further highlighted.