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Driving after using drugs, this still underestimated scourge

2023-02-19T19:18:42.796Z


FOCUS - After Pierre Palmade's accident, Gérald Darmanin proposed automatically withdrawing the driving license from people under the influence of narcotics.


"

I propose the withdrawal of the twelve points from the driving license for anyone who drives while using drugs

", declared Gérald Darmanin on February 19 in an interview with the

Sunday newspaper

, nine days after the accident involving Pierre Palmade.

While driving on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, the actor had consumed a synthetic drug, called 3-MMC, used as a substitute for cocaine.

During the accident, a 27-year-old pregnant woman lost her baby, a 38-year-old father and his 6-year-old son are still hospitalized in serious condition.

Now under judicial control, Pierre Palmade is accused of manslaughter with aggravating circumstances for consumption of illicit products.

Read alsoPierre Palmade accident: the child “will not come out unscathed”, the driver still “between life and death”

Each year, drug use is responsible for more than one in five deaths on the road, according to the National Interministerial Observatory for Road Safety (ONISR).

In an effort to “

strengthen sanctions against…

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Source: lefigaro

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