News, Traffic Information and Road Works

If you are visiting the vineyards of France to buy your favourite wines, the notes below will help you avoid traffic problems. If you want to visit some of the 111 vineyards on our lists, then check out the Routes in our member's Premier Pages section.

If you don't want to drive all the way to the vineyard, Winedrive members living in the UK can order great French wine from home at low vineyard prices and have it shipped to Calais, then take a cheap day return from Dover to collect it.

For more detailed information including advice regarding delays, diversions and speed restrictions and for monthly reports from the vineyards, see Premier Pages. Click the Join Now! button above.

High-Viz
From July 1st it becomes obligatory to have two warning triangles and fluorescent jackets in your car for any eventuality - breakdown, or accident. The warning triangles must be placed 30 meters from the vehicle (in front and behind). While positioning the triangles and doing any work on the vehicle, it is compulsory to wear the fluorescent jackets.

It is also compulsory to use hazard flashers whenever you are broken down or involved in an accident. If you are stopped because of an accident and you are the last car in the line, it is recommended that hazard flashers are used until another vehicle comes up behind you.

Ain:	All open
Alpes du Hautes Provence:	All open
Alpes-Maritime:	Lombarde
Ariege:	All open
Cantal:	All open
Drôme:	All open
Hautes Alpes:	Agnel
Haute Garonne:	All open
Hautes-Pyrennes:	All open
Haute-Savoie:	Col de la Ramaz
Isere:	All open
Jura:	All open
Puy de Dôme:	All open
Pyrenees-Atlantiques:	All open
Savoie:	Iseran, Mont Cenis
Vaucluse:	All open
Vosges:	All open

Radar Detectors
Anyone caught with a radar detecting scanner will be banned from driving in France for up to three years and have it confiscated on the spot.

Unless there is another driver in the car, you will be turned round at your port of entry and put back on the boat. If you are stopped anywhere in metropolitan France, you will have to get your motoring organisation to repatriate your car or get someone from England to collect it. Ports and airports are notified if a visiting driver is banned and anyone who continues to drive can expect severe consequences, including a possible prison sentence - LEAVE YOUR SCANNER AT HOME!