Car magazine Autoplus has tipped off motorists on the most likely places they are likely to be caught speeding by putting together a list of the 100 busiest speed cameras and radars in France.

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Where is the most active speed camera in France?

Car magazine Autoplus has tipped off motorists on the most likely places they are likely to be caught speeding by putting together a list of the 100 busiest speed cameras and radars in France.

Published: 13 February 2012 08:20 CET

Where is the most active speed camera in France?

Ludovic

The speed camera most likely to flash at motorists is on the A41 motorway between the south-eastern town of Annecy and the Swiss city of Geneva.

The exact point is close to Saint-Julien-en Genevois, which is next to the Swiss border. The speed camera there reportedly flashes 462 times a day on average.

The second most active camera is in the Paris suburbs, between the south-west Puteaux and Issy-les-Moulineaux on the RD1 (route départementale), which follows the path of the river Seine.

The third busiest camera is on the A7 motorway between the southern cities of Lyon and Marseille.

The magazine also finds the most idle speed camera in the country, which sits between Saint-Aulaire and Varetz in the central Limousin region.

The magazine also warns its readers about cameras situated close to traffic lights, which are far more likely to catch offenders than others.

Of those, nine of the ten most active are in Paris, with the busiest in the centre of the city at the junction of Quai de Gesvres and the rue Saint Martin.

Read more on the magazine’s website.

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Spain has second highest rate of daily alcohol drinkers in EU

Photo: Cristina Quicler/AFP

Thirteen percent of people in Spain drink alcohol every day, a similar rate to Italy, where 12 percent enjoy a tipple on a daily basis, and only behind Portugal, where 20 percent of people have an alcoholic drink seven days a week.

That puts Spaniards above the EU average of 8.4 percent daily drinkers, data published by Eurostat in July 2021 reveals.

This consistent alcoholic intake among Spaniards is far higher than in countries such as Sweden (1.8 percent daily drinkers), Poland (1.6 percent), Norway (1.4 percent), Estonia (1.3 percent) and Latvia (1.2 percent).

However, the survey that looked at the frequency of alcohol consumption in people aged 15 and over shows that weekly and monthly drinking habits among Spaniards are more in line with European averages.

A total of 22.9 percent of respondents from Spain said they drunk booze on a weekly basis, 18.3 percent every month, 12.5 percent less than once a month, and 33 percent haven’t had a drink ever or in the last year.

Furthermore, another part of the study which looked at heavy episodic drinking found that Spaniards are the third least likely to get blind drunk, after Cypriots and Italians.

The Europeans who ingested more than 60 grammes of pure ethanol on a single occasion at least once a month in 2019 were Danes (37.8 percent), Romanians (35 percent), Luxembourgers (34.3 percent) and Germans (30.4 percent).

The UK did not form part of the study but Ireland is included.

Overall, Eurostat’s findings reflect how the Spanish habit of enjoying a glass of wine with a meal or a small beer (caña) outdoors with friends continues to be common daily practice, even though 13 percent does not make it prevalent.

Spaniards’ tendency to drink in moderation also continues to prevail, even though a 2016 study by Danish pharmaceuticals company Lundbeck found that one in six people in the country still drinks too much.

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