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Dynamic speed limits begin on A7 motorway near Lyon in bid to improve road safety
Lower limits - down to 50 km/h - will be implemented in heavier traffic or adverse weather conditions
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Most departments in France using private unmarked radar cars, more to follow this month
Vehicles are switched frequently between areas
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Post-Brexit boat registration in France - reader solutions
Owning a second-hand boat in France as a UK resident can be complex
Smoking also distracts drivers in France
Nobody speaks of the danger of smoking at the wheel
A crackdown on the use of telephones at the wheel is a wise precaution.
Too many drivers regularly use their hand-held phone while driving. But nobody speaks of the danger of smoking at the wheel – distraction while lighting the cigarette, distraction while flicking off the ash into the ashtray (or, worse, out of the window!) and then finally stubbing it out or, again worse, throwing it out of the window.
I suspect that the smoking lobby is too strong and no government has the courage to introduce a law forbidding smoking at the wheel.
Keith White, Limours