Alcohol, cannabis and no license for a truck driver on the A8 motorway in the Var

Miscellaneous facts - Justice-

It was motorists who were driving on Friday evening on the A8, between Le Muy and Le Capitou, who gave the alert: a refrigerated truck zigzags between the different traffic lanes. The truck driver had consumed alcohol and cannabis. His license had already been suspended.

A 44-year-old truck driver was arrested and taken into custody on Friday September 10 around 9:30 p.m. by the gendarmes of the Cannet-des-Maures Motorized Peloton. Motorists, who were traveling on the A8 motorway, between Le Muy and Fréjus, towards Nice, reported a few minutes earlier the dangerous driving of the driver: he swerves, zigzags on the tracks.

1g alcohol, cannabis, license suspended last month

Quickly stopped by the gendarmes, the man, originally from Nice, first explained that he was rolling a cigarette while driving with his knee. But blood alcohol and narcotics tests offer other explanations: the driver took the wheel with 1 g of alcohol and after consuming cannabis. He was also driving without a licence: his was suspended last August… for six months.

The driver will have to explain himself to the Draguignan court next March.