They may have saved his life and that of other motorists.
This Thursday, the gendarmes of the Coutevroult motorized platoon intercepted a racing car traveling at 217 km / h on the A4 motorway, near Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames.
Driving a Mercedes GLC 300 was a 23-year-old driver who tested positive for cannabis.
“The results of the saliva analysis are not yet known”, however specified a soldier this Friday.
Direction the pound for the Mercedes, the BMW and the Porsche
He is not the only one to have been taken by the patrol, Thursday.
Between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., the gendarmes, who had installed a control device in the province-Paris direction, noted no less than a dozen major speeding offenses, which generated the withholding of four driving licenses and the impoundment of three vehicles.
Starting with that of the 23-year-old driver, domiciled in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), who should not have exceeded 110 km / h.
A second young driver had the unpleasant surprise of timing himself at full speed.
This resident of La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, aged 21, was flashed at 195 km / h instead of the 110 km / h authorized for probationary permits.
He was also traveling in a large engine, in this case a BMW 3 series. 130 km/h.
Three drivers will be judged in Meaux
“The three owners will have to pay the costs of removal, impoundment and one-week guarding of their vehicle, and the three drivers will later answer for their behavior before the Meaux court”, indicates a gendarme.
They are the subject of an administrative detention of their driving license pending the suspension decision from the prefecture for the two young French drivers and a ban on driving on French territory for the Luxembourgish offender.