According to AFP, the Government would consider no longer removing points for “minor speeding”. In France, 58% of speeding offenses are less than 5 km/h according to data from the Ministry of the Interior. Better tracing of offending motorists is also being studied.
What if “small speeding offenses” were finally no longer sanctioned? According to the indiscretions gleaned by journalists from Agence France Presse, the Government would consider no longer verbalizing motorists who exceed the limits a little. ” We will hit much less on small speeding tickets said a source at the Interior Ministry, adding that the idea was not to lose a point if you are 5 km/h above » of the authorized speed. On the other hand, the fines sanctioning these offenses would be retained. The amount is currently between 68 and 135 €, depending on whether you are inside or outside the urban area.
58% of speeding offenses are less than 50 km/h
At the end of April, the Ministry of the Interior decided to respond to Var Senator Françoise Dumont (LR), who wondered about the share of speeding between 1 and 5 km / h noted by automatic speed cameras in France. After a year of waiting, and on the eve of the presidential election, Place Beauvau had told him that nearly 7.3 million notices of fines had been noted out of more than 12 million notices issued. Speeding less than 5 km/h therefore accounted for 58% of all speeding violations detected by speed cameras in 2020, compared to 52% in 2010.
Better tracking of misrepresentations
The 40 million motorists association says it welcomed this announcement ” which marks a real break in the policy of road safety with the first mandate of Emmanuel Macron at the origin of the 80 km/h and the unbridled multiplication of all types of speed cameras “. But it also calls for the removal of the associated financial penalty.
According to information from AFP, the Government is also studying a device aimed at preventing false declarations by drivers seeking to avoid the withdrawal of point(s) by denouncing a third party. This solution would consist in completely digitizing the driving license and the gray card. The ministry would like to deploy this system by ” a year and a half, two years “.
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