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Road Safety Authority calls for caution before New Year's Eve

2021-12-30T18:46:30.213Z


Its barometer recalls the dangers of drinking and driving. On the night of December 31 to January 1, 2020, 20 people were killed on the roads.


"Beware of urban legends concerning drink driving

," warns Franck Le Vallois, general manager of the French Insurance Federation.

Salted coffee, mint candies or the absorption of a spoonful of oil do not minimize its effects in the blood or on the alertness of the driver. These are false good solutions, ”

he warns. However, 82.7% of French people will consume alcohol to celebrate the New Year, with an average of 3.6 glasses and even nearly 5 glasses if they are between friends, in a festive atmosphere. Data from the 12th edition of the 2021 barometer

“The French, New Year's Eve and drinking and driving”

(*) produced by the Assurance Prévention association, in partnership with Prévention Routière.

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But, be careful,

"these quantities are far above the authorized doses to respect the alcohol level in the blood of 0.5 grams

, warns Anne Lavaud, general delegate of road safety.

If we want to respect the standard, we must take the doses of bars-restaurants, this corresponds to 10 centilitres for a glass of wine for example, or at home we serve more generously.

Depending on the person, you have to drink between one and two glasses and no more to be able to get back behind the wheel. ”

If, according to this survey, 64.8% of French people have not planned to travel on New Year's Eve, on the other hand, almost a quarter of them plan to take the car to go and celebrate the news. year. This prevention campaign is aimed at them, as well as the hosts who will let them go even if they are alcoholic.

“The danger is real: 23.4% of French people have already seen a New Year's Eve guest get behind the wheel in an alcoholic state

,” recalls Anne Lavaud.

Alcohol is still one of the main killers on the road. New Year's Eve is no exception to the rule with 20 deaths for the transition from 2019 to 2020, up 33% over one year. "

Also, after eighteen months of confinement and a New Year's Eve in a small committee last year because of Covid, Road Safety is going to meet the French.

Useful and appreciated prevention

This Thursday, in mild and sunny weather, the association and its volunteers went to the heart of Paris, in the Halles district. They distributed breathalysers and good advice there.

“We always have a very interested welcome from passers-by. We are organizing two participatory workshops, one of which is used to show that the glasses served at home are more generous than those served in a bar, ”

notes Anne Lavaud. Behind a small improvised counter just in front of a supermarket, under the canopy on rue Rambuteau, Melissa asks passers-by to pour the exact dose of a glass of wine, beer or an aperitif authorized by law to respect the blood alcohol level. Hervé, who came from the Landes to spend New Year's Eve with children and grandchildren, succeeded without fail. "

We are careful now, drink or drive… we have chosen: we will stay in the apartment we are renting.

But we take the alcohol tests for our return to Hossegor, ”

he smiles, on the arm of his wife, Anne.

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A little further, in front of the exit of the Châtelet station, the second workshop entitled "the alcohol carpet" attracts onlookers. “

It allows the passer-by who is given specific glasses to understand in what state he is at the wheel when he has drunk too much. He must follow a simulated road course on the carpet, ”

explains Anne Lavaud. All go out of the way but appreciate.

"It makes you realize how serious things are when you've drunk too much, you go into the scenery,"

admits 20-year-old Cassie. She has had the license for a year and is planning to celebrate the New Year with friends but will not drink alcohol. She leaves with a breathalyzer for a friend who will come by car.

“I'm better off without glasses. I have never drunk in my life and this experience does not make me want to start, ”

says Omar, 47, living in Chelles, in Seine-et-Marne. Some will not get behind the wheel.

“I live in Crépy-en-Valois, we will celebrate the New Year with friends with glasses of crémant, I am a sales representative for a cooperative of winegrowers,

smiles Corentin. 25 years.

I plan to return by bike. ”

As for Muriel, 65, she is not afraid to put pressure on the friends who will come to spend the evening with her.

“When you love people, you hold them back,

” she insists.

We will be five friends for Christmas Eve, three of whom will come by car.

They are going to drink a little bit but I will give them the breathalyzer before leaving.

It's important that we have a good time together not to learn that they have an accident on the way back. ”

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*) Survey conducted online by the Moaï studies institute from November 19 to December 6 with 1,030 individuals.

Source: lefigaro

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