From January 2009 to enter into force new legislation providing for restrictions on inexperienced drivers, who can drive in the early years, only cars that do not exceed a certain power to reduce the risk of accidents.

The chairman of the, Enrico Gelpi, has recently launched a proposal that, if accepted, could meet the needs of average families, which in January will be forced to buy a new vehicle to their son drivers.

The proposal provides, in fact, many facilities for the purchase of the first car to the drivers with an aged between 18 and 25 years: the exemption of stamp car for the first years, VAT applicable to 10% and many more .

One proposal, or rather a project that will obviously applies only to the purchase of environmentally friendly cars. We just have to see whether this project will apply or not.

Federpneus, an association that holds the tire specialist retailers, announced recently the results of a study in which over the past five years the number of motorcycles has grown considerably in our country, an increase equal to 27.81%.

In particular, just five years ago, in 2003, the number of motorcycles registered was 4,370,449 in 2007 motorcycles had already become 5,585,972.

The increase in the number of motorcycles covered, in particular, the region of central and southern ahead with the Molise with 44.52% followed closely by Lazio with 39.88% and the northern region of Piedmont with the 37.48%.

According Federpneus, this increase is due mainly to the difficulties of finding parking and traffic congenital that would push people to buy a motorcycle to move freely in city traffic.

As repeatedly said on these pages, the market for cars is experiencing a period of deep crisis almost everywhere with registrations in the last year that are significantly decreased over the previous year.

This situation does not seem to concern that Brazil appears as an island happy. If in 2007 the enrollment had increased by 27.8%, the first ten months of 2008 have reported very positive results with an increase equal to 23.2%.

A situation that might develop in the coming in contrast to what is happening in much of the world, especially in Western countries, where registrations are drastically reduced.

Moreover, according to statistics are a Brazilian eight still owns a car, then the margin of increase in registrations are still high.

As we said a few days ago, one of the main causes of road accidents that occur on our roads is linked excessive alcohol in the blood due to a glass of wine or beer too.

And ‘why Mario Calducci, Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, has recently submitted a bill that could insaprire further penalties against those who abuse alcohol before they get to drive.

In particular, the proposal provides for the reduction of the limit of alcohol in the blood permissible by law, bringing it from 0.5 today to 0.2 grams per liter.

A proposal which, if approved, could significantly reduce the number of glasses of wine or beer that every driver can drink before you get in the car without risking the immediate withdrawal of the license.

For more sentences could be further tightened to discourage drivers to drink before you get to drive. We shall see.

In national and regional news you hear talk almost daily, of traffic accidents, fatal or otherwise, caused by the driver who was driving under the influence of drugs or a strong dose of alcohol.

An alarming situation given that according to some statistics 50% of road accidents that happen in our country is due to one or both reasons mentioned above.

For example, in hospitals Niguarda in Milan arrived in the period between March and September 2008, 74 drivers who had had an accident. More than 50% are found positive to drugs or the test apparatus.

One thing that should reflect the Government to intervene by engaging in drastic measures that may discourage the occurrence of such incidents every year that lead to the death of many innocent people.