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Alcohol at the wheel
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 If your alcohol level lies between 0,5 and 0,8 gram per liter of blood: you risk a contractual fine of 135 Euros and the loss of six points of the driving licence.
In the event of appearance before the court (by decision of or the dispute public prosecutor of the contractual fine), you are likely also a driving ban.
If your alcohol level is higher than 0,8 gram per liter of blood: you are likely to be punished 2 years of imprisonment and 4.500 euros fine. This offence gives place to the loss of six points of the driving licence.
Attention, the court can moreover decide to inflict a driving ban to you for one duration being able to reach 3 years.
If you refuse to subject to you to a checking of the blood alcohol content, except in the event of against precise medical indication, you incur the same sanctions as in the event of going beyond of the rate of 0,8 G for thousand of alcohol in blood, i.e.:
a fine being able to reach 4.500 Euros, 2 years a maximum custodial sentence, the loss of six points of the driving licence, a suspension or a cancellation of the driving licence.
Moreover, if you associate consumption of narcotics and alcohol witha prohibited rate, you incur 3 years of imprisonment and 9.000 euros of fine.
Lastly, if you cause an accident while leading under the influence of alcohol, the fine will be increased to 30.000 euros if you cause serious wounds and you are liable to a imprisonment which can go up to 10 years and to a fine being able to reach 150.000 euros if you cause the death of another road user.
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In 85% of the cases of accidents fatal related to alcohol, the persons in charge were occasional drinkers.
It is often enough to a family celebration, of a pot between friends, a well sprinkled meal. Alcohol is at the origin of 34% of the accidents fatal all the year.
This proportion amounts to 45% in the accidents fatal with a vehicle alone without pedestrian. Alcohol is implied in half of the accidents fatal which have occurred the weekend and it is the leading cause of 42% of the accidents fatal touching the young people from 18 to 24 years the summer.
The mortal accident risk increases considerably with the blood alcohol content. Any driver or guide of driver under the influence of drink pupil seriously compromises the safety of its passengers and other road users.
Consequently, it is interdict to lead with an alcohol level equal or higher than 0,5 gram per liter of blood, is 0,25 alcohol Mg per liter of expired air.
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 Tracking
The gendarmerie and police force practises trackings of the blood alcohol content of the motorists and guides of conducting pupils:
in the event of traffic accident having caused a physical injury, even if the motorist of it is not responsible,
in the event of offence against the highway code (even apart from a state of intoxication expresses)
Tracking: another case
Trackings can be also ordered by the public prosecutor or the judiciary police officers, apart from any infringement.
Practices:
Trackings are practised by means of a éthylotest (english bond measuring the alcohol level in the expired air). If you refuse to undergo a tracking, you are then likely to be subjected to a checking of the blood alcohol content in blood.
Checking of the blood alcohol content
It intervenes:
in the event of positive tracking, or if you refuse to subject to you to simple tracking by éthylotest.
It is practised then:
either by blood test and medical examinations, or by means of an approved apparatus measuring the blood alcohol content in the expired air, called ethylometer.
0,5 gram per liter of blood, they is two glasses!
Whatever the alcoholic drink, “glass” represents about the same quantity of alcohol.
25 beer Cl with 5° (a half), 12,5 wine Cl of 10° with 12° (a balloon), 3 distilled alcohol Cl with 40° (whisky, anisette, gin) contain about 10 grams of pure alcohol. These capacities correspond to the standardized amounts, been useful in the coffees.
At home, one tends to increase sometimes considerably the been useful quantities…
Each glass makes on average assemble the blood alcohol content of 0,20 G to 0,25 G.
These figures can be very appreciably increased at certain subjects: for thinnest, the women or the elderly, each glass can represent a blood alcohol content of 0,30 G.
Physiological effects of alcohol
Alcohol narrows the field of vision.
Alcohol increases the sensitivity to the dazzling.
Alcohol deteriorates the appreciation of the distances and the widths. Under the effect of alcohol, a driver can decide, in front of an obstacle, to slow down at a too short distance to stop or, in front of a passage narrower than its car, to pass nevertheless.
Alcohol decreases the reflexes. The intermediate duration of the reaction time under normal conditions is evaluated at one second approximately. As of 0,5 g/l, the reaction time can reach 1,5 second.
Thus, a vehicle running at 90 km/h traverses 25 meters into 1 second and 37 meters into 1,5 second. These are the 12 meters which can save a life! The reaction times increase considerably with blood alcohol contents even higher.
Alcohol causes an over-estimate of its capacities.
Alcohol has an euphoriant effect. It causes an over-estimate of its capacities. After 0,5 g/l of blood, control becomes more run up than against jeun and the driver makes much more errors.
Under the effect of alcohol, the driver has a behavior degraded compared to the sober driver. That results in a more important taking risk: excessive speed, aggressiveness, not-port of the belt of safety or the helmet, reflexes decreased…
A subject in good health eliminates 0,10 G to 0,15 G from alcohol per hour. Nothing erases the effects of alcohol: salted coffee, spoonful of oil… no “trick” makes it possible to eliminate alcohol more quickly
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Alcohol at the wheel
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