The road stopped between Montpellier and Nîmes for the driver of a Ferrari. Checked by the gendarmes of the Grand-Gallargues motorway platoon on Saturday evening, he was declared positive for both the alcohol test and narcotics. His car was impounded and his license was suspended.
The soldiers have not been idle since they fined eight people on this portion of the A9 motorway, mainly for excessive speeding. The most important of which for a retained speed of 208 km/h, or nearly 80 km/h above the speed limit.
For the past few weeks, the gendarmes of the rapid intervention element have benefited from a Renault Alpine in order to compete with the fastest vehicles and to track down excessive speeding.