If part of the A1 remained closed in recent days due to farmers' blockades, it was still possible to drive on the rest of the route of this motorway.
On condition, however, that they respect the speed limits because even if monitoring the roadblocks took them a lot of time, the gendarmes have not reduced their vigilance with regard to checks.
It was even a speed record which was recorded by the Senlis rapid intervention team (ERI), which had never before had to intervene for such speed on this part of the A1.
The soldiers had just set up in the Paris-Lille direction, near the town of Biermont, when their radar recorded a motorist driving at 272 km/h, for a retained speed of 258 km/h.
Tried in April
On board their Alpine A110S, the ERI gendarmes immediately began pursuing this Audi RS6 which they intercepted a few kilometers further.
On board, three young men including the driver, confronted with a cascade of decisions which should lead him to bitterly regret having had too heavy a foot on the accelerator.
By decision of the Compiègne public prosecutor, informed by the gendarmes, the driver had to immediately pay a deposit of 1,500 euros.
His driving license was withheld and the vehicle impounded for 7 days.
The young motorist was summoned before the Compiègne court in April to answer for this driving at excessive speed.