The number of deaths on the roads of mainland France recorded a decrease of 17 % in January 2025 compared to January 2024, with a total of 203 people killed, road safety announced on Monday. The number of serious injuries over these same periods is also decreasing ( – 9 %), with 934 serious injuries … Read more
Reinforced checks in drugs targeting the drivers of school cars: this is the measure announced Thursday, January 30 by the Minister responsible for transport, Philippe Tabarot, after the death of a high school student in a school vehicle accident near Châteaudun, In Eure-et-Loir. A salivary test for narcotic products practiced on the driver of the … Read more
A flood never seen for more than 40 years in Rennes, gusts at more than 100 km/h, the village of Vendée Globe Closed, traffic: Herminia depression played the spoilsport on Sunday in the west of the country and the situation will continue on Monday. In the Breton capital, crossed by two rivers, the Ille and … Read more
A flood never seen for more than 40 years in Rennes, gusts of more than 100 km/h, the Vendée Globe village closed, rail and road traffic disrupted: the Herminia depression played spoilsport on Sunday in the west of the country. In the Breton capital, crossed by two rivers, the Ille and the Vilaine, “Today (Sunday) … Read more
The Grand Est Region “take control of destiny” 500 kilometers of roads “strategic”a five-year experiment during which it wants to set up an eco-fee for heavy goods vehicles which will finance its maintenance work. These portions of road and motorway, congested or poorly maintained by the State, include the strategic A31 motorway, which goes towards … Read more
Two trams collided in the tunnel under Strasbourg station on Saturday afternoon, an extremely rare accident which left several dozen injured. Firefighters reported around fifty injuries, all minor, and around a hundred people unhurt. The prosecution announced that it had opened an investigation into the charge of involuntary injuries, which aims to “determine the causes … Read more
Two people lost their lives and around twenty others were slightly injured in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais during the snowy episode which has hit the region since Wednesday. Thursday morning, a homeless person was found dead in Valenciennes, the Northern prefecture said. In Croix, in the Lille metropolis, a man in his fifties fell on … Read more
A 20-year-old young man died on Saturday on the A6 in Burgundy, in an accident probably due to the disturbance which crossed the north and east of France during this last weekend of the Christmas holidays, leading to the placement around twenty departments on orange snow-ice alert. Heavy freezing rain, which led to the closure … Read more
Red vigilance for fine particles was lifted on Thursday in the Arve valley, in Haute-Savoie, and will be lifted overnight for Vaucluse and Bouches-du-Rhône, thanks to better weather, according to regional observatories of air quality. In the Arve valley where this vigilance had been in force since Monday, the prefecture, which had notably banned wood … Read more
The collapse of a bridge in northern Brazil killed eight people and nine people remained missing on Thursday, according to a new report from the authorities, who provided reassuring news about the risks of pollution of the adjoining river. A fire department spokesperson told AFP that truck tanks containing sulfuric acid were “intact” after their … Read more