Ascension weekend: the hunt for speeding on the main roads has started in Toulouse
A police operation was carried out this Friday afternoon in Toulouse to combat speeding. Further checks will be announced on social media.
They had announced it transparently on social networks and stood out well at the meeting, this Friday afternoon, at the Firmin-Pons roundabout, between the Arc-en-ciel ring road and Eisenhower avenue in Toulouse. . The police officers of the department’s motorcycle and road safety brigade organized a vast speed check from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Invisible on a bridge upstream of the roundabout, binoculars in hand, two officials track abuses. “Do you know why you are arrested? asks an official to an intercepted driver. You have detected a speeding limit of 117 km/h instead of 90 km/h. At 111 km / h retained, that makes you two points less. Now slow down, slow down. “But I doubled”, tries the offender whose registration card is not up to date either.
This other motorist is resigned. “I don’t deny, I accept. On took me. I was returning home “. He too is two points lighter.
Refusal to comply, €4,500 in cash
Heat stroke when a flagged T-Max scooter rushes into the roundabout. The passenger is not wearing a helmet. The police whistle but nothing helps. An official stands in the middle of the road and has to brandish the portcullis so that the pilot ends up stopping with bad grace. The tone rises but the control can take place. The young man must present his papers. His scooter is searched. In the trunk, a plastic bag with a huge wad of banknotes: €4,500. “I did my checkout”, justifies the alleged trader who has no receipt. He will be arrested to justify it.
“The purpose of these operations is to change behavior because there is a deterioration in accidentology, observes Commissioner Caron, head of the public order service. The road is a space shared between pedestrians, motorists, two-wheelers, trucks, everyone must be able to use it without putting themselves in danger”. The checks are announced on the Twitter account and the Facebook page of policenat31. “We don’t want to trap people but remind people of the rules for everyone’s safety.” This Friday afternoon, 17 speeding tickets were noted, two insurance defects, a technical control defect, a non-transfer of gray card, an illegible plate, a failure to wear a helmet and a refusal to comply .
In the morning already, in the hypercentre of Toulouse, an operation had targeted the use of the telephone while driving. Seven people had been fined. Minus three points.
Other checks on the various topics related to road safety are planned. They will be announced…