{"id":21273,"date":"2013-03-12T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/dont-blow-it-under-tough-new-french-drink-driving-laws-2\/"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:33:00","slug":"dont-blow-it-under-tough-new-french-drink-driving-laws-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/dont-blow-it-under-tough-new-french-drink-driving-laws-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dont blow it under tough new French drink driving laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rNQ3sBJzUXY\/UT8uvuARDaI\/AAAAAAAAeDQ\/Txg4JVvUqxM\/s1600\/Peugeot%2Bon%2Bhighway.img%2Bpic2-730202.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rNQ3sBJzUXY\/UT8uvuARDaI\/AAAAAAAAeDQ\/Txg4JVvUqxM\/s320\/Peugeot%2Bon%2Bhighway.img%2Bpic2-730202.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5854449437942812066\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SELF-drive holidays specialists, DriveAway Holidays has a novel surprise in glove-boxes for clients collecting one of their rental or long-term lease cars, people-movers or motorhomes when visiting or driving into France \u2013 two disposable breath-test kits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lefrancophoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/breathtestfrance.jpg\" alt=\"Inline images 1\" width=\"200\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s because from 1 July 2012 France has made it compulsory for all vehicles to have a breath test kit on board for drivers to self-check their alcohol level, with an on-the-spot fine of Euro11 (approx AU$13.50) if you are stopped by police and don&#8217;t have one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our suppliers are putting two into every vehicle on pick-up so if you are stopped by police and have already used one kit, you&#8217;ve still a spare until you&#8217;ve time to purchase a replacement at a supermarket or service station for around AU$2.50 to $5,&#8221; said DriveAway&#8217;s Senior Marketing Manager, Chris Cowley.<\/p>\n<p>The legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers in France is 0.05%, although while the new self breath-test laws came into force on July 1, they won&#8217;t be enforced until November 1 this year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact DriveAway Holidays on 1300 363 500 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driveaway.com.au\/\">www.driveaway.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SELF-drive holidays specialists, DriveAway Holidays has a novel surprise in glove-boxes for clients collecting one of their rental or long-term lease cars, people-movers or motorhomes when visiting or driving into France \u2013 two disposable breath-test kits. It&#8217;s because from 1 July 2012 France has made it compulsory for all vehicles to have a breath test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}