Automatic radar appeared on the side of the road twenty years ago, but its presence is sometimes still contested. In the Loire, there are around thirty across the entire department. Jean, a Ligerian who travels between Saint-Étienne and Bourg-Argental plague, “with modern cars, you barely touch the accelerator and you go from 80 km/h to 90, and as luck would have it, there is always a speed camera. It’s true that getting caught by a speed camera because We went over by 5 km/h, that’s a bit annoying.” If he is content to complain, others go so far as to direct their discontent on the object of their anger, even if it means degrading him. That of Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay has already been attacked 4 times since the beginning of the year.
“Their presence is made to trap us”
In Pilat on the D1082, the Planfoy radar is regularly targeted. For Ophélie, a resident of Planfoy, the speed limit is too low, “it would be 80 km/h instead of 70, it would be better because we know the road well so we tend to drive a little faster”. Except that for Daniel, a trader at the entrance to Bourg-Argental, this is the only solution to discipline motorists: “It allows us to be educated since we cannot educate ourselves on our own. Driving too fast is recklessness” and concerning radar damage, he proposes the creation “a radar surveillance brigade with cameras”.
For others, the mention of the word “radar” is enough to annoy them. A couple of motorcyclists believe that they do not really have an impact on road safety and that “their presence is made to trap us”. They point in particular to the radar at the border with Ardèche, where the change in maximum speed is different between the two departments. Degrading a radar is punishable by a fine of 15,000 euros to 100,000 euros and up to seven years of imprisonment.
2024-03-14 11:33:46
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