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Drug-driving is involved in one in five fatal accidents. Since the Pierre Palmade affair, the Minister of the Interior has promised tougher sanctions, but also controls, as is the case near Lyon.
The control is unexpected in the middle of the morning, at the entrance to a commercial area in Champagne-au-Mont-d’Or (Rhône). The driver of a scooter is thus subjected to a saliva test which makes it possible to check the presence of narcotics, several days after their consumption. “The staggering test, it stays in the body for a really long time, suddenly it’s treacherous, a little“, judges the man. His test will be negative. On the other hand, several drivers tested positive for narcotics.
150 people tested positive
“Over the three-quarters of an hour, an hour that the check lasted, we did seven narcotics checks, and we got three positive. It’s a lot“, says Chief Warrant Officer David Machat. The driver’s license of a motorist was thus withheld for five days, the time to receive an additional saliva test. In the Rhône, out of 700 screenings carried out in January, 150 people tested positive. Alarming risk behavior according to the prefecture.
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