We see more and more cars parked in double line in our streets. If the number of tickets increases, it is often quite simple to challenge them.
Covering in town is increasingly difficult. It is often necessary to slalom between vehicles, especially during rush hour, in front of schools for example, or on the outskirts of certain businesses of strong crowds, to be able to continue its path without incident. The fault largely to certain motorists who think that the street belongs to them. You have probably noticed it, parking in double line has become a national sport in France. Impossible to approach a frequented street without seeing at least one car or a van stop on the road, to believe that it is written in the highway code that its warnings activated all the rights to motorists.
Faced with this growing phenomenon, the police have the obligation to verbalize the faults more, if only to reduce obstacles on our roads and guarantee more fluid circulation. Park in double file, considered to be “annoying” by the highway code, gives rise to a flat -rate fine of 35 euros. But there is a subtlety to know in French law, which can sometimes allow verbalized drivers for this offense to escape the sanction.
And yes, because the words have a meaning and the article R417-10,, which fixes in France the numerous parking methods in France, stipulates that it is “considered embarrassing for public traffic the parking of a double line vehicle”. The word to remember here is “parking”. A vehicle is considered parking when its engine is cut and the driver moved away from it. However, more and more drivers are verbalized for stopping in double file, the time for example to get a passenger to go up or unload. If this has the gift of annoying motorists blocked behind, no law indicates that it is forbidden to stop a short time on the road before leaving.
Therefore, if a PV for double -line parking is completely admissible, this is not the case for a double -line stop. Our colleagues from Auto Plus magazine, in their small anti PV 2025 guide, thus encouraged gender motorists for this reason to challenge their contravention. They assure that the minutes will be classified without follow-up. It’s really worth trying.