Road safety

HGVs: blind spot signaling device

Publié le null - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Bicycles, two-wheelers, motorcycles, scooters, scooters, hoverboards, gyropods, monoroues... are always less visible than a car. With their smaller size, they are often located in the blind spots of heavy goods vehicles, out of the field of vision of drivers of trucks, buses, coaches, etc. In order to enhance the protection of vulnerable road users, a blind spot signaling device is now obligatorily settled on heavy goods vehicles.

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Vehicles of more than 3,5 tons (goods vehicles and passenger vehicles) shall be fitted with a sign indicating the position of blind spots from 1er January 2021.

This marking shall be affixed to the sides and rear of the vehicle in order to be visible to cyclists, pedestrians and users of personal transport equipment traveling on public roads. They are not always aware that it is impossible for the driver of the heavy goods vehicle to perceive their presence, which leads to accidents that are sometimes fatal, for example when the driver plans to turn while a cyclist is present on the side of the vehicle.

This obligation applies to heavy vehicles traveling in urban areas. It does not apply to agricultural and forestry vehicles, winter service vehicles and intervention vehicles of motorway or two-lane road management services which are not intended to operate in dense urban areas.

Failure to comply with this obligation is punishable by a fourth-class ticket.

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