Twelve Portuguese passengers, including a
seven-year-old girl, died when their minibus collided with a heavy truck on a highway in central France known locally as "the road of death".
France has rolled out the first of 5,000 dummy speed cameras in the hope of tricking motorists into driving more safely in a bid to cut rising road deaths.
A motoring group has revealed exactly which cars are the most commonly pinched in France with thieves apparently having a penchant for French made automobiles.
Belgian drivers commit an average of 1,150 driving offences per day in France, far more than other European nations, according to statistics released by France's road safety agency.
France's defence minister has urged soldiers "to give themselves up" if they are guilty of sexually assaulting hungry Central African kids, as questions remain on why the probe into the alleged crimes is taking so long.
The French government on Thursday reported a 12-percent drop in the number of cars torched on New Year's Eve - a ritual among revellers in the country's high-rise suburbs.
France's roads are becoming more dangerous with new figures from the interior ministry revealing the number of people dying in accidents has risen by five percent in 2014. The rise is a blow to the government, which had vowed to cut the number of deaths.
Earlier this month, a treasure trove of some 60 extremely rare cars was discovered in a small village in western France after lying forgotten for almost 50 years. In February the cars will change hands at an auction - and they're expected to fetch millions.
A suicidal man who jumped out of his moving car at 100km/h in the middle of a motorway in south-east France has miraculously survived with minor injuries, French media reported on Monday.
The mayor of a small French town has made a dramatic appeal to President François Hollande to do something to stop a wave of car-burning he says has made his town look like Beirut at the height of Lebanon's civil war. The damage toll so far? Seventeen vehicles.
Six months after being welcomed as saviours in the Central African Republic, the 2,000 French soldiers in the country face growing hostility from a population accusing them of failing to curb interfaith violence.
A Frenchman’s attempt to perform a world-record-breaking car stunt in Tignes, in the southern Rhône-Alpes region, went awry on Tuesday morning when his car crashed during a practice session. The moment was captured on camera.
French drivers find nothing more terrifying than other French drivers, a new poll has found. Also, Spanish drivers are big on their horns, and everyone’s afraid of the Italians.
There would be a genocide raging in Central African Republic if French troops had not been deployed, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday ahead of a parliamentary vote to extend the military mission.
France's chances of making an swift exit from Central African Republic (CAR) appear slim with the leader of the strife-torn country pleading with Paris to keep its troops there until 2015.
French troops were out in force on the streets of the Central African Republic's capital on Friday as they sought to clamp down after days of violence.
France will "soon" have military support from other European countries on the ground in strife-torn Central African Republic, the country's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday. But he did not specify which countries would send troops.
Two French soldiers have been killed in Central African Republic, where Paris has sent troops to quell sectarian violence, the president's office said on Tuesday. President François Hollande is due to fly to the conflict-ridden country later on Tuesday.
A French motorist got a nasty shock recently, after receiving a €25,000 bill from the state for road damage caused by a serious car crash in April 2012, in which he was rear-ended by a speeding, hit-and-run driver.
