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From 2012 Presiden Sarkozy plans to introduce a change to the law whereby all drivers will have to have an Alcohol Breath Test Kit in their cars. The kits should be available from Motorway Service Stations and should cost £1.20. No kit and you could be fined £14. Anyone else seen this article? it was in the Scottish Daily Record on 2nd December.
I think this has been on here before and some thought it was a joke. Supposed to come into effect in the Spring.
He is also supposed to have announced that 400 more Radar traps will be installed and they will not have any prewarning and are not to be listed in any GPS.
Also talk of limiters in vehicles I have seen elsewhere but did not say which vehicles or when.
He is pushing for more road safety as their deaths rate is better but still high.
Not a joke but reality I and others have alerted the forum to it here
The single use kits are now readily available in car accessory shops etc.
OK, so having read all of the posts in the link I'd like to know where I can buy a suitable breathalyser which is compliant with the requirements of the French law (e.g. the NF requirement), this side of the water before I go to France?
In the link posted by EuraJohn a lot of people were getting hot under the collar about this, personally I don't understand why. There a lot of laws you have to comply with on the continent that you don't have to comply with here (warning triangles, reflective vests, bulb kits etc), I just see that as part and parcel of motoring in the continent.
In the link posted by EuraJohn a lot of people were getting hot under the collar about this, personally I don't understand why. There a lot of laws you have to comply with on the continent that you don't have to comply with here (warning triangles, reflective vests, bulb kits etc), I just see that as part and parcel of motoring in the continent.
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MrWez, if you have a problem sourcing them, I'll happily get one (or more) and post to you, so long as you cover cost of buying and sending. Currently I've seen (and bought) at €1.20 and €2, don't know what the postage would be but I would have thought not too much as they are very light.
From most of the info going around here the "law" will come into effect in April. I've still seen no French government statement to prove or otherwise the story but there has been plenty of coverage in all areas of the press most quote statements made by M Sarkozy or his staff as to the authenticity.
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No way will Sarkozy be in office after the election unless there is a real upset. Unless it passes into law before he departs it will probably hang in limbo like a great deal of French Legislation championed by Presidents just before their demise.
Dick
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