the police check a staggering number of drunk drivers leaving nightclubs

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“We often carry out checks leaving nightclubs, whether after reports from town hall services or local residents. But, obviously, we don't advertise it much. Except that it is sometimes useful to remind that we are here so that everyone respects the rules”begins the spokesperson for the Rennes police withRennes news.

Friday, December 20, between 4:30 a.m. and 7 a.m., agents were mobilized to establish two checkpoints in the city center of the Breton capital.

70 vehicles checked

They checked 70 vehicles and found that eight drivers were drunk beyond tolerable thresholds for getting behind the wheel.

Four of them belonged to a “violation of alcohol”either with an alcohol level equal to or greater than 0.5g/l and less than 0.8g/l which is punished with a fine.

Four drivers will go to court

Four others were subject to “criminal alcoholism”i.e. above 0.40 mg of alcohol per liter of exhaled air. These four drivers saw each other withdraw their license immediately while awaiting the court decision, “with surely a license suspension of several months at stake”.

The eight vehicles were immobilizeddue to lack of a driver capable of getting back on the road.

« Et the controls will be renewed as they very often are,” immediately warns the police spokesperson.

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