It is illegal to use motorcycles between the lines

While many motorcyclists are fined when going up the line on the grounds of "overtaking on the right", the Independent Union of Municipal Police (SIPM) considers that it is simply "illegal", confirming the position of the FFMC (read MNC of March 31, 2010: verbalization between the lines, do not sign anything!).

While many motorcyclists are fined when going up the line on the grounds of "overtaking on the right", the Independent Union of Municipal Police (SIPM) considers that it is simply "illegal", confirming the position of the FFMC (read).

According to the SIPM (read in particular), it is therefore necessary to "refuse to sign the report" and to contest it on the basis of article R 414-15 of the highway code, which provides that "when, on the roads to one-way and on roads with more than two lanes, the traffic has, due to its density, established itself in an uninterrupted file on all the lanes, the fact that the vehicles in one line travel faster than the vehicles of another queue is not considered an overflow ".

No text "prohibits (nor authorizes) the practice of circulation between the lines", specifies the SIPM for the attention of its police officers, and "the highway code does not envisage that it cannot there have only one vehicle per road ".

Verbalizing overtaking on the right as part of the movement of two-wheelers between lines of cars is therefore "illegal or at least unsuitable", concludes the union. In addition, "no vehicle respects the safety distance on the device: it is 28 meters for any vehicle traveling at 50 km / h". To verbalize only two-wheelers therefore amounts to "a form of discrimination".

Finally, to the police officers confronted with "a biker or a" scooter in a suit "who goes up the lines of vehicles without any precaution at high speed", the SIPM recommends using article R 413-17 of the highway code (PV 4th class) for "speed unsuited to traffic circumstances". The ticketing agent will then have to "justify the ticket by detailing the circumstances".

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