Road Safety Awareness Course - Stage to reclaim points
Verified 21 novembre 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)
Your situation
- Internship for point recovery
- Voluntary internship: you choose to do an internship to collect points
Step-by-step approach
You can choose to take an internship to collect points on your driver's license.
Your permit must be valid (you must have 1 point or more).
You can recover up to 4 points within the limit of your license ceiling (12 points, or 6 points for a probationary permit less than 1 year).
You can do Maximum 1 internship per year.
Example :
If you do an internship on the 1ster on october 2, 2023, you can do a new internship starting on the 1er October 2024.
The price medium of the course is €200.
However, the traineeship manager is free to set the price.
The internship lasts 2 consecutive days (14 hours, or 7 hours a day).
The course is led by a road safety expert and a psychologist, who are graduates and authorized to lead the road safety awareness courses.
The aim of the training is to change the behavior of the driver.
The syllabus includes 2 modules :
- Teaching on general drivers of road insecurity (accident case studies, driving exercises...)
- Special education on specific themes (speed, psychoactive products...)
If necessary, a personalized interview and/or a driving session can be organized.
Interview is mandatory if you have already participated in 2 road safety awareness courses.
Maintenance takes a minimum of 45 minutes. He is led by the psychologist of the internship, outside the 14 hours of the internship.
You must take the road safety awareness course in a approved establishment by the prefect.
You can sign up for an internship in any department.
The list of approved establishments is available on the website of each prefecture.
You can also contact the prefecture.
One probationary certificate you are given if you have completed the entire course.
You are informed by mail of the points recovered (note that it may take several weeks to send the mail).
In practice, dots are added on your permit when the administration registers your certificate of internship.
It's the Cert: titleContent the driver's license you depend on, who handles it.
Use the online service My Points Allowed for check the number of points on your driving license.
Internship to recover points following an infringement (Article L223-6)
Compulsory traineeship in the event of an infringement punishable by a withdrawal of 3 points or more, committed during the probationary period (Article R223-4)
Content, duration and examinations at the end of the road safety awareness course
Internship required by the judge as a supplementary sentence (article 131-5-1)
Internship required by the judge in the context of probation (article 132-45)
Internship as an alternative to the prosecution proposed by the public prosecutor or in execution of a criminal composition (articles 41-1 and 41-2)
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