- Have new fines for drivers just come into effect? This is ensured by a visual shared more than 54,000 times since the beginning of February on Facebook.
- The listed offenses are not new or simply do not exist.
- The visual has been around since 2017.
A fine of 75 euros for driving in flip-flops or searched in his glove compartment, another of 68 euros for smoking with minors on board. These are some of the offenses presented in a lying tract. Posted on February 4 on Facebook on the page of a driving school, it has been shared 54,000 times since, ensuring it high visibility on the social network.
The leaflet wrongly presents "the new driving fines" and encourages them to "circulate it to inform your loved ones". He draws up a list of actions presented as offenses and the corresponding fines: smoking with minors on board, listening to loud music, eating while driving, rummaging in his glove compartment, putting on make-up, driving in flip-flops, holding his phone , wear earphones or headphones, watch a screen not intended for driving and finally exceed the 0.2g alcohol limit for probationary licenses.
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This leaflet has been circulating since at least 2017, explains Road Safety at 20 Minutes . Certain offenses presented as new in the tract have been in force for several years: the drop in the legal alcohol level for probationary licenses has been valid since 2015, the ban on having a screen in the driver's field of vision is even more old (2008), as for the use of a telephone while driving, it is sanctioned by the loss of three points and a fine of 135 euros since 2012.
An article of the Public Health Code has prohibited smoking since 2016 in the presence of a minor. The offender faces a fine of up to 750 euros. Wearing a headset while driving has been prohibited since 2015.
Some fines of the leaflet do not exist in the Highway Code
"No article of the Highway Code specifically mentions the prohibition of listening to music, eating a sandwich or looking for something in the glove compartment of the vehicle," adds Highway Safety.
However, this behavior is liable to be penalized if the police consider it dangerous, as provided for in article R.412-6 of the Highway Code, cited by Road Safety: "The driver must at all times adopt a prudent and respectful behavior towards other users. (…) All drivers must constantly keep themselves in a state and in a position to execute conveniently and without delay all the maneuvers which are their responsibility. "
At the origin of this leaflet, a post published on July 1, 2017 on the Mister-Auto Facebook page, as noted by AFP and Le Monde . This visual already cited these so-called “new fines”.
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