The weeks go by and are all the same on the A75, near Val-d’Arcomie. After a 19-year-old driver was caught doing 166 km/h on this road on June 21, a motorist, also on a probationary license, was caught doing 175 km/h on Sunday June 30. The sentence is the same: immediate suspension of the license.
A 19-year-old driver, holder of a probationary license, was checked at 166 km/h (157, speed assumed) instead of 110 km, on the A75, near Val-d’Arcomie, on Friday 21 June. Same road, same age, a driver, originally from Cher, was arrested this Sunday, June 30, around 10:45 a.m., by the motorized platoon of the Saint-Flour gendarmerie. He was traveling at 175 km/h (166, speed assumed) instead of 110 km/h.
Two drivers follow each other at full speed
Four other speeding violations were recorded on the department’s roads this weekend. A 38-year-old Cantal woman was driving at 139 km/h (132, speed assumed) instead of 90 km, Saturday June 29, around noon, on the RN 122, in Polminhac. Two men aged 35 and 48, who were following each other on the RN 122, were flashed at 140 km/h (133, speed assumed) instead of 80 km, this Sunday, June 30, around 5:40 p.m., in Quézac. Still in this commune of Châtaigneraie, but an hour earlier, a 22-year-old motorist, positive for cannabis, was checked by the Ytrac motorized brigade at 117 km/h (111, speed adopted) instead of 80.
Driving test success rate in free fall for 10 years in Cantal
Several alcohol-related offences were noted by the department’s gendarmes: a 51-year-old man from Cantal arrested on the night of Friday 28 to Saturday 29 June, around 1:50 a.m., in Anglards-de-Salers (0.82 g of alcohol per litre of blood for an authorised level of 0.5 g); a 47-year-old man from Cantal on the D20, in Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat, on the night of Saturday 29 to Sunday 30 June, around 2:20 a.m. (1.74 g of alcohol); a 53-year-old man on the D 909, in Saint-Georges, Sunday June 30, around 3:20 p.m. (0.82 g of alcohol) and a final driver aged 32 at the place called “Rouffiac”, in Saint-Simon, Sunday June 30, around 8:55 p.m. (1.06 g).
All of these drivers were subject to a driving licence suspension, before an administrative suspension of up to one year.
Pierre Raynaud
