France’s drive to cut down the number of road accidents saw a woman fined €90 at the weekend, when she was caught driving in flip flops. She complained the fine was worth the same as a pair of shoes.
As a new survey has revealed that one in two French people can't identify the meaning of common road signs, we've collected the most confusing signs from the roads around France to see whether you can understand them.
More people died on France's roads in 2014 than the year before, new statistics revealed on Thursday, marking the first time in 12 years that the figure had risen.
Parisians heading off to the ski slopes at the start of the school holidays could face an ordeal to get to the mountains with traffic chaos forecast for all roads leading to the French Alps. And remember what happened last time...
UPDATED: France's interior minister announced a raft of measures on Monday aimed at improving road safety, with a heavy focus on preventing alcohol-related accidents as well the use of mobiles at the wheel.
French truck drivers on Friday lifted an overnight roadblock of heavy vehicle traffic on the A10 highway that connects Paris with the south-western city of Bordeaux. The truckers staged the action to demand higher minimum pay.
Enraged French truck drivers were on Thursday set to start blocking some roads and warehouses near Paris as part of a two-day labour action to demand a higher minimum salary. The blockage is likely to disrupt some last-minute Christmas deliveries.
Drivers in France are being warned to steer clear of French motorways on Friday night and Saturday. With July and August holidaymakers set to cross over, the weekend is set be one of the busiest of the year on French roads.
Criticism was quick and pointed after a French transportation official floated the idea this week of allowing certain vehicles to use emergency lanes during bottlenecks on the country's notoriously crowded roads.
The number of fatalities on France's roads are at an all-time low after a record drop in deaths last year, official figures released by the government revealed on Monday.
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">New speed cameras which record the average speed of a car over several kilometres appear on French motorways from Wednesday.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A resident of a small village is offering to pay the €20,000 ($26,000) cost to have a speed camera installed in front of his house.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A new TV campaign has been launched to get road deaths down from the stubborn 4,000 mark.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">3,970 people lost their lives on French roads in 2011, a slight improvement on the 2010 total but still far away from President Nicolas Sarkozy's ambition to get the annual level below 3,000.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Every car in France will have to be equipped with a breathalyzer from the spring of 2012. The announcement was made by President Nicolas Sarkozy in a speech on Wednesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A hard-hitting film that warns young people against the dangers of drink-driving will air on eight different TV channels on Thursday evening.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French roads were safer in the busy holiday month of August than in any other August since records were first collected in 1956, according to data released on Monday by the national highway agency, Sécurité Routière.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After rising for most of the year, the number of deaths on French roads fell 21 percent in July compared to the same month last year.</span></p>
