Gérald Darmanin revived the idea of no longer penalizing a penalty point on the license for minor speeding of less than 5 km / h. This in order to be understanding with “those who work”.
Remember, at the beginning of September 2022, Gérald Darmanin made an important statement regarding minor speeding (under 5 km/h). The Minister of the Interior mentioned a possible modification to the highway code. This so that minor speeding offenses no longer lead to points being deducted on the driver’s license.
“They are certainly dangerous, but often involuntary and represent more than 50% (58% exactly) of the points lost”, thus justified the minister last July in an interview with the Ebra group. ” That’s enough unfair for France which gets up early and who does not have public transport. »
Gérald Darmanin revives the subject of minor speeding
The minister of the Interior revived on this topic, while the subjects of road safety are at the heart of many debates following the accident of Pierre Palmade. The politician tweeted on the subject, saying that he wanted to be understanding with those who work :
“I want to remove points deductions for speeding less than 5km/h and thus be understanding with those who work. »
ROAD SAFETY :
I want to remove point deductions for speeding less than 5km/h and thus be understanding with those who work.
Conversely, I want to revoke the license of those who drive under drugs/alcohol because they are potential dangers.— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) February 19, 2023
58% of speeding offenses are less than 5 km/h
A statement that brings us back to the controversy that erupted last April. A year earlier, Françoise Dumont (Senator LR from Var) had indeed asked to know the number of verbalizations concerning speeding of less than 10 km/h. Important information in the context of road safety.
The answer had finally arrived, with explosive effect. 58% of speeding tickets are for speeding less than 5 km/h ! More than 95% of excesses were less than 20 km/h.
By removing the loss of points on the license, the government would only keep the fines. The latter represent a juicy estimated business between 500 and 824.4 million euros (peak in 2017) every year. Which says a lot about its road safety policy.
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