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A business manager was flashed at 134 km/h instead of 50 km/h in the village of Grisolles by the gendarmes of the Departmental Road Safety Squadron (EDSR) of Tarn-et-Garonne, on October 24 . The 50-year-old's Porsche Panamera was seized and his license was subject to administrative detention for 8 months before his trial before the Montauban judicial court.
Flashed more than 80 km/h above the speed limit in downtown Grisollesa motorist panicked the radar of the gendarmes of the Departmental Road Safety Squadron (EDSR) of Tarn-et-Garonne, on October 24.
Motorcyclists from the Motorized Platoon (PMO) of Montauban, in the process of setting up a speed checkpoint on the D 820, on a portion limited to 50 km/h in the village, are alerted by the sudden sound of a vehicle accelerating in their direction.
One of the commander's men Jacques Ferrière, the new head of EDSR 82, has just time to take out his radar and position it in the direction of the car which is arriving at full speed on the main road. At the wheel of a Porsche Panamera, the motorist is simply overtaking another user in the town center of the town.
The gendarmerie radar then displays a speed of 134 km/h for an authorized limit of 50 km/h. The police managed to intercept him shortly after. This 51-year-old business manager, living in the department, believed that the vehicle in front of him, respecting the limit, was not going fast enough.
The fifty-year-old's driving license was subject to immediate administrative retention for 8 months. Furthermore, due to this considerable speeding, his car was seized pending subsequent criminal proceedings before the Montauban judicial court.
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