After a dark year on the roads of Tarn, the Prefecture toughens license suspensions

With 32 deaths to date, the year 2024 has been particularly deadly on the roads of Tarn. To stop this phenomenon, the Tarn Prefecture has decided to tighten the departmental scale of license suspensions. Certain violations will cost motorists more.

5 young people died on November 26, 2024 between Gaillac and Lisle-sur-Tarn. A 21-year-old young woman died in a traffic accident near the village of Venès, at the beginning of December…The year 2024 was particularly deadly on the roads of Tarn. 32 people have lost their lives to date, already 8 more than in 2023. And the year is not over…

To stop this sad phenomenon, the Tarn Prefecture has decided to act. On December 23, 2024, it announced that it had tightened the departmental scale of license suspensions.

This year, the prefect suspended more than 700 driving licenses linked to the consumption of alcohol, drugs, high speed or refusal to comply.

The Prefect of Tarn has decided to toughen sanctions in particular for driving under the influence of narcotics and for refusing to comply. With a double objective:

• increase license suspension periods for the most serious offenses
• improve the readability and understanding of the order for road users and
state services responsible for implementing it.

Concretely, here are the new sanctions:

• in the event of refusal to submit to an alcohol test, the license suspension increases from 6 to 8 months of license suspension.
• in the event of refusal to submit to checks concerning the use of narcotics, the suspension of the license increases from 6 to 8 months.
• driving after using a narcotic product, the sanction also increases from 6 to 8 months.
• refusal to comply, we spend from 6 to 10 months
• repeat refusal to comply for 10 to 12 months

The Tarn Prefecture hopes to reverse the curve in the number of road accidents in 2025.