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So if you buy one of these "approved" devices and decide, for whatever reason to use it, and you are THEN stopped by "Flic" before replacing it, say just outside the campsite gates, will you get a fine because you do not have a test kit available for your immediate use
OOH I can see all sorts of problems attached to this little gem !!!
I will NOT be buying one untill I am sure its a LEGAL requirement for me to have one. (cant see it ever being brought in, but thats a personal view)
There are two threads running with the same basic question - about breathalyzers and also speed camera detection/notification all of which is up in the air after Sarkozy's announcement that both would be introduced "by the spring".
I suggest the most definitive answer we have encountered so far is contained within this post on the other thread;
So if you buy one of these "approved" devices and decide, for whatever reason to use it, and you are THEN stopped by "Flic" before replacing it, say just outside the campsite gates, will you get a fine because you do not have a test kit available for your immediate use
OOH I can see all sorts of problems attached to this little gem !!!
I will NOT be buying one untill I am sure its a LEGAL requirement for me to have one. (cant see it ever being brought in, but thats a personal view)
I have it in my head that a lot of what I have read, both here and other forums, relates to carrying two kits. Could this be to overcome the problem that you are talking about what
I seam to remember that carrying double what you were required to was the answer to a similar conundrum posed some years ago by the compulsory carrying of spare bulbs somewhere else in Europe - Switzerland I think. There had been reports of the police stopping motorists and making them replace a faulty bulb only to fine them for then not carrying the compulsory spare.
You don't need to be Einstein to see that if the "ethylotest" kits are to be sold in pairs, the idea is that if you have been drinking, you should self-test to check that you are under the legal limit before driving.
If the first test shows positive, you should wait for an hour or two and then use the second test kit. If the second test shows positive, so you discover that you could be still over the alcohol limit, why were you even thinking of driving in the first place?
Sorry for coming in late to this thread, and as an inexperienced France traveller (been once). I was searching the form for the appropriated answer to something that I heard over the weekend from other motorhomers and caravanners, namely-
New legislation in France includes.....breathaliser, if you wear glasses you must have a spare pair, and Headlights MUST BE REALIGNED and NOT JUST BEAM BENDERS.
Now I know a lot of this could be just conjecture but does anyone know for sure the correct details.
(Not that I'm planning on going anytime soon.)
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there have been several threads about this, of which this is one We didn't manage to keep them all under one heading. Can I suggest a search using the magnifying glass thingy, and enter breathalyser, and select France Touring as the forum to search- you should get them all
And as for the headlights thing, I haven't seen anything about that - is it one of these mythical things like gas attacks?
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