Less than a week after the death of an 18-year-old young woman on the RN 106, the police carried out reinforced roadside checks on this same axis, in the presence of the public prosecutor, on Thursday 25 June in the morning.
From 8 a.m., around twenty police officers take over part of the RN 106 in the direction of Alès-Nimes, to carry out checks. Éric Maurel, public prosecutor of Nimes tells us that these serve to “remind our fellow citizens of the need to be careful behind the wheel”.
In addition to the verbalizations concerning the speed or the consumption of alcohol or narcotics, the Prosecutor insists on the “preventive effect” of the controls: “one will never know the number of lives which one will have saved with this control, but it is enough that someone who is going to drive fast this morning is more reasonable, in the sight of the police, and we will have succeeded in our action. “
Five deaths on the Gard roads, “all occurred after the deconfinement”
Because even if the road mortality figures were satisfactory at the start of 2020, Jean-Pierre Sola, departmental director of public security, reminds us that “five deaths are to be deplored on Gard roads in 2020”, before to press on the fact that they “all occurred after the deconfinement”.
On the main roads, main target and vector of death each year, the police are attentive to speeding and lack of control, especially on the RN 106, used by more than 12,000 vehicles per day. “We use two types of radar, the conventional binoculars and a radar on board our vehicle,” added Commissioner Sola.
Users who sometimes take too many risks on national roads, “we recently recorded a peak at 155km / h on this road, however limited to 90km / h” specifies Jean-Pierre Sola.
We recall that 54 people lost their lives on Gard roads last year, a figure that has dropped by 10 units compared to 2018.
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