Warning for drivers heading to France
Police told to apply roads laws more strictly in bid to reduce deaths
Anyone heading for a driving holiday in France this year is warned that road authorities are planning a major crackdown on those who break the law.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office website, at www.fco.gov.uk/travel, warns that driving laws will be more rigorously enforced as from this week, as part of a nationwide campaign in France to cut the number of road deaths. Police have been told that they must apply roads laws “to the last comma”, according to The Independent, with penalties including heavy fines, confiscation of licences, and the seizure of vehicles.
Those most at risk are those drivers who have fitted “radar speed-trap detectors”, which are legal in the UK but illegal in France, Whereas the standard fine used to be 700 euros, anyone caught now will face a 30,000-euro fine, and the seizure of their car.
The British consul general in Paris, Stuart Gregson, told The Independent: “I would strongly advise British drivers coming to France this summer to remove their radar detectors and leave them at home. We have had several cases of British drivers who felt aggrieved at being fined and having their radar devices confiscated under the old law. The penalties under the new law are much more severe.”
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