Small speeding will no longer be penalized by a deduction of points from 1is January 2024, announced Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin in a letter to Senator LR of Var Françoise Dumont, dated April 11.
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“Work has been undertaken at my request to adapt the repressive regime applicable to minor speeding violations”those “less than 5 km/h”explains the minister to the senator in this letter revealed by the regional daily “ nice morning and authenticated by AFP with the elected official. But “it will not be a question of decriminalizing these offenses which will remain sanctioned by a fine”adds Gérald Darmanin in this text.
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It’s about “to introduce administrative indulgence with regard to these breaches which are more a matter of lack of attention than a deliberate desire to break the rule”says the Minister of the Interior.
Some road safety associations had deplored at the end of May 2022 a track « regrettable » or encouraging motorists “to drive faster”.
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In 2020, of the 12.5 million tickets sent for speeding checked by speed cameras, 58% were for excesses of less than 5 km / h, according to a response from the Ministry of the Interior in April 2022 to a written question by Francoise Dumont.
“We have been working on this measure with the Ministry of the Interior for years, so I can only welcome it”reacted to AFP Pierre Chasseray, general delegate of 40 million motorists. “This will allow us to see that this will have no effect on accident rates”he anticipates. “The second step, now, is to obtain the non-financial sanction, because there is still the fine to pay”he added.
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Today, speeding less than 20 km/h is penalized with one point and a fine of 68 euros (on roads where the maximum authorized speed is greater than 50 km/h) or 135 euros (on roads where the maximum authorized speed is less than or equal to 50 km/h).
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This measure will come into force five and a half years after the lowering, in July 2018, from 90 to 80 km / h of the maximum speed, on secondary two-way roads without a central separator. This decision, which aimed to reduce the speed on the axes where fatal accidents are concentrated, had been followed by strong protests, in particular on the part of the “yellow vests”.
