A hard of hearing man was fined for “driving a vehicle with a device likely to emit sound” in his ear.
It is a painful story told by the Mail Picard this May 18. A deaf man and wearing hearing aids has indeed received a fine pour “Wearing a device capable of emitting sound in the ear”. Ceci without even being stopped by law enforcement.
The offense was noted on April 7, in Saint-Quentin (Haute-Picardie). Dominique Moret, author of the alleged offence, picks up his wife at work. « I was not arrested by the police and I did not even see the shadow of a kepi that day”he recalls.
However, a week later, a letter from the Rennes fines center arrived in his mailbox. A ticket for “driving a vehicle with wearing in the ear of a device capable of emitting sound”. With? 135 euros of penalty and three points down on the permit.
The driver contests this fine
The 50-year-old immediately challenged this fine. “I never drive with a headsethe explains. On the other hand, I wear two hearing aids in my ears. » On May 4, he therefore wrote to the officer of the public prosecutor’s office and filled a challenge to his minutes.
Sent back to the center of Rennes, this dispute also contained his hearing test, the bill of his two sonotones worn for six years. But also the related medical prescriptionas well as pictures of his devices alone and in his ears.
Posted on May 5, the challenge has not received no response in eleven days. The Saint-Quentin police station explains that there is a “Waiting period between his challenge reaching Rennes and his return home to the officer of the public prosecutor’s office. But his request will be studied and processed. We will communicate without concern with him. »
If his request is not heard, the possibility of go to the competent court still exists. An additional difficult test, one imagines, for a man simply victim of a handicap.
let’s remember that since 2015the wearing of any device likely to emit sound (headphones, headphones, headsets, etc.) is an offense. Fortunately, this ban does not apply not hearing aids.
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A hard of hearing man was fined for “driving a vehicle with a device likely to emit sound” in his ear.
It is a painful story told by the Mail Picard this May 18. A deaf man and wearing hearing aids has indeed received a fine pour “Wearing a device capable of emitting sound in the ear”. Ceci without even being stopped by law enforcement.
The offense was noted on April 7, in Saint-Quentin (Haute-Picardie). Dominique Moret, author of the alleged offence, picks up his wife at work. « I was not arrested by the police and I did not even see the shadow of a kepi that day”he recalls.
However, a week later, a letter from the Rennes fines center arrived in his mailbox. A ticket for “driving a vehicle with wearing in the ear of a device capable of emitting sound”. With? 135 euros of penalty and three points down on the permit.
The driver contests this fine
The 50-year-old immediately challenged this fine. “I never drive with a headsethe explains. On the other hand, I wear two hearing aids in my ears. » On May 4, he therefore wrote to the officer of the public prosecutor’s office and filled a challenge to his minutes.
Sent back to the center of Rennes, this dispute also contained his hearing test, the bill of his two sonotones worn for six years. But also the related medical prescriptionas well as pictures of his devices alone and in his ears.
Posted on May 5, the challenge has not received no response in eleven days. The Saint-Quentin police station explains that there is a “Waiting period between his challenge reaching Rennes and his return home to the officer of the public prosecutor’s office. But his request will be studied and processed. We will communicate without concern with him. »
If his request is not heard, the possibility of go to the competent court still exists. An additional difficult test, one imagines, for a man simply victim of a handicap.
let’s remember that since 2015the wearing of any device likely to emit sound (headphones, headphones, headsets, etc.) is an offense. Fortunately, this ban does not apply not hearing aids.
Also read on Auto-Moto.com:
Watching movies while driving will soon be allowed!
Employees, more dangerous in the car since Covid-19?
Motorists now constantly tracked down
