The gendarmes are a dozen this Saturday morning, some on motorcycles, others on foot, to control motorists around the Kronthal roundaboutin Marlenheim (Bas-Rhin).
Whereas Clever bison had seen red for this first weekend of departure on vacation, Thierry Rogelet, the sub-prefect of Molsheim came to attend the launch of this operation called “Civil-summer”, which intends reinforce all this summer the controls of the gendarmes on the frequented axes of the region.
If the gendarmes place themselves along the departmental 1004, it is because it is an alternate route where many cars pass each other when going on vacation.
Prevention rather than punishment
The bikers beat down three cars from the same convoy, all dragging a trailer. “Turn off the engine, show me the driver’s license and vehicle papers please“, asks a policeman to the driver.
“The license plate on the trailer, where is it?“, the controller wonders. “She is no good“recognizes, sheepishly, the man behind the wheel.”It’s not that she’s not good, it’s that she’s downright absent from the trailer“, replies the constable. “She’s not mine“, said the young man, who did not do all the checks, in a hurry.
The constable tells him that the trailer is immobilized, but the driver has the option of picking up a plate from a nearby garage to equip his trailer. Against 20 euros and in 30 minutes, he is in order.
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Normally, such an offense is punishable by a fine of 135 eurosreduced to 90, but it will be fine this time: “There is no verbalization today, we are really on a prevention operation, you will be able to leave, the plate holds“, explains a policeman. “That’s cool, thanks!“, smiled the young man.
“These controlssupports Thierry Rogelet, sub-prefect of Molsheim, it is also an opportunity to carry out prevention, to convey simple messages on the maintenance of your vehicle, are you not overloaded, are you not too tired : we are beyond the classic repression of a road safety check“.
Controls that reassure
Other gendarmes ensure that the kayaks British tourists are well hung on the roof of the vanwhen Micheline, who had come from the Jura aboard her motorhome, presented her papers, all smiles: “Seeing the police, it reassures us! These controls are good, because there are too many people who respect nothing. This morning we were overtaken on the white lines, and then the trucks passing us…it’s awful!“