-
GR, GRP, PR: What do the French hiking signs mean?
What are the coloured symbols on French hiking routes? Who paints them there and why?
-
Miss France: glam - but not sexy
Miss France organiser Geneviève de Fontenay fears she is fighting a losing battle to protect her 'Cinderella dream' from vulgarity
-
Normandy Landings visit for Queen
Queen Elizabeth has confirmed a state visit to France, ending rumours she is handing over duties to Charles
Pedestrians face €4 jaywalking fine
Paris police hope penalty will help cut the number of accidents and deaths on the capital's roads
PEDESTRIANS in Paris who fail to take care when crossing the road could be hit with a €4 fine under heightened measures designed to improve road safety in the capital.
Paris police have introduced the nominal fine for jaywalkers caught ignoring traffic lights or trying to get across a street where there is no pedestrian crossing.
According to police data, 29 pedestrians were killed crossing Paris roads last year.
The city's head of road safety Françoise Hardy said: "We are using all the means available to us to reduce the number of accidents."
One policeman, speaking anonymously to Le Parisien, suspected the fines were a PR move designed to artificially inflate the number of penalty notices issued in a year.
"You just have to stand at any crossroads in Paris and you could dish out 50 fines in 10 minutes," he told the newspaper.