After the bus accident which caused the death of a 15 -year -old teenager, the driver’s drug consumption is pointed out. The Minister of Transport wants to authorize business controls.
Would drugs be the reason for the bus accident that caused the death of a 15-year-old teenager in Châteaudun (Eure-et-Loir)? According to a road safety report, “one in five fatal accidents is caused by narcotics”. According to the first saliva analyzes of the Co driver, this accident is one of those caused by drugs. Additional analyzes have confirmed this drug consumption. He would have smoked cannabis before driving, according to the prosecution.
However, the company which employs the driver involved in the accident provides regular tests to its employees. These are random and make it possible to test all employees at least once a year. In the past four years, the 26 -year -old driver has been tested negatively to drugs each year, according to the company manager at BFMTV.
The screening soon imposed?
But these screenings can only be done with the authorization of the person tested. Indeed, an employer cannot impose a narcotics of narcotics on his employees. But for Philippe Tabarot, “it will probably be possible in the coming months”. The Minister of Transport assured that he had exchanged with the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, so that a “certain number of shares” are carried out “to operate more and more important checks”. Today, business screening tests are “reserved for employees who occupy so-called” hypersensitive, drugs and alcohol “positions for which the consumption of narcotics runs a serious danger for themselves as well as their colleagues”, according to Juritravail. They can only take place if they are provided for by a legal framework (internal regulations or service notes).
For the minister, “unfortunately, what had been done (…) against alcohol with a certain number of drivers a few years ago, will have to be done at the drug level”. As we can read on the site Service-public.fra blood alcohol control by an employer is possible. “It must have been provided for in the internal regulations or the service note” and “must be carried out in the presence of a third party (member of the CSE for example)”.