By akademiotoelektronik, 15/07/2022

12,000 euros in toll unpaid

449 passages without paying for the driver

The driver under the influence of narcotics during her control

In order to facilitate the implementation of tolls without barrier and to tighten the fight against fraud, the government has changed the legislation a few days ago by order by bringing the fine of 75 to 375 euros, by changing the fees filesFrom 20 to 90 euros and bringing the maximum sentence to 7,500 euros for recurities.When we see the behavior of some, we understand better why.

Last Friday, the gendarmes of the Valence motorway platoon arrested a driver at the Valence-Nord toll on the A7 motorway for a case of repeated fraud.

12.000 euros d'impayés au péage

This is not a matter of simple fraud, but a practice identified by the motorway company since June 2019. Between the passages in force of the barriers and the technique of the "little train", which consists in stickingThe previous driver when the barrier rises, the 36 -year -old driver multiplied the passages without paying between Valence and Vienne, located about sixty kilometers in Isère.

In total, the motorist would have defrauded no less than 449 times in almost two years.The total amount of its unpaids is estimated at nearly 12,000 euros.

"Attenuating" circumstance, the young woman was controlled positive for cocaine and heroin at the time of her arrest, proving that she no longer had all her abilities.Dependent, it is precisely to go to get in Valence that the driver was going back and forth in the Drôme.She will have to answer for her actions in justice next July.

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