Watch out for the toll scam without barrier
The other vogue scam concerns tolls without a barrier. Thousands of motorists were invited by SMS to pay a certain sum – often € 6.8 – for having borrowed a highway. Except that French motorways managers do not work by SMS. And that many of them were sent to motorists who have never circulated on the highways concerned.
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Let us note a few more classics: the tire deflated on a rest area by a crook that will offer you help and take advantage of it to make you steam wallets and bags; The Irish scam where crooks will pretend to have been stripped by thieves or that their bank card is broken, to try to extract money in exchange for false jewelry; Or those who will alert you to a problem on your car and take advantage of the stop at the next rest area to strip you.
New road rules in several countries
No one is supposed to ignore the law. If the adage is already complicated to apply in Belgium, it is even more true abroad where, if the highway code is, in a very large part, identical to ours, certain specificities exist. And it is always regrettable to realize it only once the fine received.
Did you know, for example, that in Italy, driving open window and swinging arms through the window is considered an offense capable of leading to a ticket of € 168? The police were ordered to verbalize. Reason invoked: the fact that by opting for such a position, both hands are no longer on the steering wheel. Which constitutes an offense.
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In France, it should be noted that the low -emission areas remain appropriate, despite the recent vote of the deputies of the National Assembly aimed at suppressing these ZFE. Parliamentary work must still be done and the ZFE will only be deleted in a few months. The obligation to have a Crit’Air vignette is necessary to avoid fine. The novelty comes mainly from Lyon, which has become a limited traffic area. The city prohibits transit traffic in its city center. If you plan to pass there to short-circuit the traffic jams of the Fourvière tunnel, it will be impossible, retractable terminals leaving only a few approved vehicles have been installed.
In Spain, an innovation is tested, especially in Andalusia. A red line extends for several kilometers. His role: to insist on the prohibition to double to call drivers to vigilance.
