The news that former French president Jacques Chirac has died, aged 86, should be of note for those in the road safety sector.
His political legacy is well known. Chirac was prime minister of France from 1974-76 and again from 1986-88, mayor of Paris from 1977-95 and finally president of France from 1995-2007. But his political reputation ended under a cloud following his suspended sentence on corruption charges.
Perhaps less well widely known, however, is that Chirac had a tremendously beneficial eff