A retired 70-year-old doctor was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in prison suspended by the court of Lorient for driving with 6.40 g of blood alcohol in January, fitting his new car in a bus shelter.
On 21 January, at 11am, this retired general practitioner, who has been living in Brittany for four years after a career in the Paris region, has built his brand new car in a bus shelter on the coast of Ploemeur (Morbihan). The accident did not hurt. The driver, before the help arrived, took a drink from the bottle of rum he held tightly between his thighs.
"I had to feel able to do the three kilometers that separated me from my home"
Tuesday, at the hearing, the court noted "an inexplicable rate on the criminal but also physiological.This can not be achieved without consuming alcohol on a regular basis.If a doctor is not able to understand that he was not fit to drive, who will be? "lamented the prosecutor. "I had to feel able to make the three kilometers that separated me from my home," defended the defendant, already sentenced in 2010 for driving while intoxicated. The doctor, who said he lost control of his vehicle due to the automatic transmission, assured "do not drink in the usual way".
The prosecutor's office, however, estimated that "without severe training, we were not able to walk and even crawl ... A rate of 4 to 5 g is already potentially fatal," said the prosecutor, recalling that the " record "driving blood alcohol level in France amounted to 11 grams in 2013 in Avignon.