MSE News: Driving to France? Pack a breathalyser or risk fine

Mupette

Moto2 wrote: »

Q. What's the consequences for not having one?
A. There are none

yeah that's French Law for you

DCFC79

Mupette wrote: »

AA link, they don't themselves link to where this information comes from, i'm a worrier that if i got stopped and asked, for me to reply oh well the AA website said not too..

thanks for the link



So their own pdf says you must have one.

Yes I see what you mean.

If you want to be sure your going to be safe then buy 1.

Moto2

Here's the RAC take on it, for a bit of balance

http://www.rac.co.uk/travel/driving-abroad/countries/france

benjus

If you want a more authoritative source, here's a page from the French government (via Google Translate): https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.securite-routiere.gouv.fr%2Fconnaitre-les-regles%2Fle-vehicule%2Fethylotest&edit-text=

Eeasp

As far as I was aware this "law" was revoked in 2013. They suggest you carry one but you can no longer be fined for not having one.

The reason I heard for this was that the French government underestimated the demand for breathalysers and due to this the supply was never going to be enough!

Anyway, to repeat my point, you can no longer be fined for not having one in the vehicle you're driving in France.