New Laws driving in France July 2012

[Paul3200]

You may already be aware of this new law in France for drivers. See below link on FCO.Gov.

You need to carry a Breathalyser in your car and also watch out for dodgy eastern europeans who want to rob you !

Suggest you drive with wearing high viz and a triangle dragging behind with a brethalyser in your mouth

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/europe/france1#roadtravel

If in doubt don't stop to help unless you're 100% sure or driver is Haley Berry lookalikey

Paul

 

[Andyk]

Soon you will have to carry an AA man a and medic with you as well....

 

[Paulm]

Bl00dy fogs are trying to cut their budget deficit buy not supplying police with breathalysers !
Why do you need a breathalyser if your teetotal ? another waste of money imoa
Looks like we'll have to have chevrons on rear end soon !

 

[BigFoot]

What a pain in the neck, I was planning a family trip to the Cote d'Azur with the car and now I need to buy one of those things...

 

[Andrea]

Crike! Bit drastic have they gone MAD... Was gonna get a hire car in Nice next weekend, will it be supplied???

 

[Parisien]

Need two in your car actually......easy picking are the UK tourist!!! Not sure about rental car but would imagine they supply them like the hi-viz and warning triangle


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[RSM Masser]

Do you need more than 2 and when are you supposed to use them? Surely if you need 2 - get bladdered - use one - decide to drive anyway- get stopped by the rossers then get done for drink driving and only having one breathlyser.
At what point do you replace them?

 

[Paul3200]

You can buy French approved ( according to ad ) disposable blowers on Amazon for less than a tenner each

Regards
Paul

 

[Parisien]

Think you can buy packs of them ....maybe even less than that...will put up a link or two


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[Parisien]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Breathaly...ity_Disability_Medical_ET&hash=item3a73ec7482


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[Parisien]

Or bulk buy.....if 10 plus sets of 2 needed

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Breathaly...ity_Disability_Medical_ET&hash=item3cc6a21747


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[halbe01]

I looked at this and the law is that you need 1 working breathalyser in the car. The recommendation is therefore to carry 2 so that you can use one and still be legal, however the obvious answer to me is to buy one and then never ever use it. That's unless you particularly want to start testing your own breath on occasions, in which case buy enough to see you through. This is similar to the law about hi-vis jackets - the law is to carry one (in the cabin, not the boot) but the recommendation is to carry one for everyone in the car. Personally I don't feel I need them, so carry just one so we're legal.

According to the research I did, while the breathalyser thing becomes a legal requirement in July they have stated they won't enforce it until November. And they're very cheap to buy in France (a couple of Euros each - so I'm told).

Cheers,
Ben.