Road Safety Awareness Course: What Cases?

A road safety awareness course is not a driving school transfer. The course, which lasts 2 days in a row, allows drivers to question their dangerous behavior on the road. There are 4 cases of internship with or without point recovery.

🚗 What is the Voluntary Point Recovery Course (Case 1)?

When a training course is taken voluntarily after a traffic violation and loss of points, such as speeding, using the phone while driving, or even a positive blood alcohol level, the course allows recover 4 points on his license.

What are the conditions for a voluntary internship?

• Have actually lost points, that is, by checking the file of the national driver's license on the website https://tele7.interieur.gouv.fr/tlp/ or having received letter 48 from the Ministry of the Interior;
• Not have a license revoked by a judge or invalidated because it is at 0 points upon receipt of a certified 48si letter;
• Not having completed an internship to restore points less than a year ago;

How do I sign up for an internship?

It is possible to undertake an internship in any department in France and register for an approved LegiPermis point recovery course in any case to recover points following a court decision or administrative notice.

Beware of delays in losing points

The period for loss of points does not occur immediately after the violation is committed. For example, you do not have to do an internship if you have 12 more points. The timing of deduction of points varies, whether it is a fine for a traffic violation or a traffic violation:

• After 1-4 grades ticket : Loss of points starts with the payment of a flat penalty or an increase in the penalty. In practice, there is an additional administrative delay, which often averages between 2 weeks and 3 months;
• After a class 5 ticket or offense : loss of points occurs when the decision is final. In the case of a court order, the verdict is final after 30 days in case of violation and after 45 days in case of misconduct. To this we must also add an administrative delay in the loss of points from 2 weeks to 3 months on average;

🔎 What is a Compulsory Probationary Internship (Case 2)?

For young drivers who have an internship for the first 3 years (or only 2 years after driving with an escort), the rules are different. In addition to the lower speed limits and the maximum allowed blood alcohol level, which is reduced to 0,2 g / l, there is a mandatory training system after certain traffic violations.

Thus, after committing a violation of the road code, which entailed loss of 3 or more points, a young driver will be required to take a road safety awareness course.

When does this commitment begin?

Please note that the obligation does not begin after the offense, but after receiving the letter the recommended 48n link that comes up after losing points. You have to wait until you get letter 48n undergo an internship, otherwise the administration may consider it voluntary, in which case it will be necessary to repeat the internship.

Young driver on probation в течение 4 месяцев undergo an internship upon receipt of a registered letter.

Do we collect points in the young driver training courses?

Since there was no point rebuild course in the year preceding this compulsory enrollment, this compulsory course allows restore up to 4 points within the maximum remainder of the trial license. So, for example, after losing 3 points out of 6 as a result of crossing a continuous line, we will not be able to get 7 points out of 6, and we will only recover 3 points during the internship.

In addition, participating in this internship on time allows get a refund of the fine associated with an offense (except in the case of a criminal case).

What happens if you lose 6 points during your first trial year?

If an offense resulting in a loss of 6 points, such as drinking alcohol while driving or using drugs, is committed during the first probationary year, and this loss of points actually occurs during the first year on the National Driving License File (FNPC), then the internship is not possible. to keep the license. The latter will be invalidated upon receipt of a notice called "letter 48" if it will always be sent by certified mail.

🚘 What is an internship in the context of a criminal offense (Case 3)?

The prosecutor may, through a prosecutor's representative or a judicial police officer, propose sanction to the perpetrator of the traffic offense in order to avoid litigation. The offender can accept this punishment or refuse it.

The crime awareness road safety education course does not provide points and remains transparent in a timely manner. That is, any driver taking this course in case 3 does not need to wait a year to complete another course to voluntarily collect points (case 1).

💡 What is a Mandatory Sentence Internship (Option 4)?

For example, in the context of a decision in a police or criminal court, a judge may order a driver to take a road safety training course at his own expense. This is often the case in the context of a criminal order, which is a simplified sentencing procedure.

While in most cases the internship is offered as an additional penalty to the fine, sometimes this penalty is declared the main penalty.

Again, this required course does not require re-point recovery and does not count towards re-taking the voluntary point recovery course (case 1).