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July road deaths hit 60-year low in France

A total of 304 people were killed in accidents on France's roads last month compared with 344 in the same period in 2013.

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The number of road deaths in July in France is the lowest in sixty years: 304 people were killed in road accidents. During the same period last year, 344 people were killed, reports RFI.

The Government has launched safety reforms to reduce the number of deaths on the roads and reach their goal to decrease yearly deaths to fewer than 2000 per year by 2020.

These reforms include lowering the speed limit in certain places, and using radar speed controls to discourage speeding.

In 2013, a total of 3268 people died in road accidents in France.

Read more of this report from RFI.