Inebriation on public roads, road checks, fireworks… As excesses are frequent, New Year's Eve is often apprehended by the police who are heavily mobilized for this evening.
To end the year or to begin it, it's as you wish, the gendarmes of Aix-en-Provence deployed eight patrols until four in the morning that night of December 31 between Gardanne, Peyrolles-en-Provence , Venelles, Bouc-Bel-Air, Rousset and Trets for an operation to combat road crime.
25 offenses were noted, including accident-prone offenses such as failing to obey stop signs or driving while drunk or under drugs.
According to the gendarmes, however, there has been a reduction in risky behavior. “Overall, people make arrangements with a driver who doesn't drink“, explains the police who checked 80 vehicles in the Aix region during New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve is the last festive time of the year and the French take advantage of it, sometimes in the wrong way.
According to the National Interministerial Road Safety Observatory, on average, 9 people die every day on the roads of mainland France (2023). However, 16 people died between December 31, 2023 and January 1, 2024.
“This assessment can vary quite significantly from one year to the next, due to the fact that each accident results from individual combinations of circumstances.“, comments the observatory.
On the morning of January 1, 2022, 2023, and 2024, three quarters of deaths occurred during an accident where at least one driver had an alcohol level above the legal limit and in 40% of people who died on the road. road, at least one driver tested positive for drugs.
This result is higher than the average for 2023 which stands at 30% for alcohol and 18% for narcotics.
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