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Switzerland: It Creates a Traffic Jam by Breaking Down a Tunnel, Its License Is Suspended

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The Federal Court of Neufchâtel (Switzerland) confirmed the suspension of a driver's licence who had been found guilty of having broken down gasoline and had created a long traffic jam in the tunnels of La Vue-des-Alpes in March 2024. A driver who had already been convicted on several occasions for road crimes. For having caused a traffic jam of more than one hour in the tunnels of La Vue-des-Alpes in March 2024 after having failed petrol, a mot…
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In March 2024, a motorist from the canton of Neuchâtel broke down in the Vue-des-Alpes tunnel in Switzerland, blocking traffic for more than an hour. The Swiss Federal Court has just confirmed for him an indefinite withdrawal of permits, with a minimum of 24 months, showing that a simple error of anticipation can be very costly. The case, far from a stroke of bad luck, becomes a case of gasoline failure in a tunnel, loss of permits.

The Federal Court of Neufchâtel (Switzerland) confirmed the suspension of a driver's licence who had been found guilty of having broken down gasoline and had created a long traffic jam in the tunnels of La Vue-des-Alpes in March 2024. A driver who had already been convicted on several occasions for road crimes. For having caused a traffic jam of more than one hour in the tunnels of La Vue-des-Alpes in March 2024 after having failed petrol, a mot…

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An Alpine tunnel blocked for more than an hour because of a simple breakdown of petrol. And a driver who finds himself deprived of flying for years. In Switzerland, this scene was played in the canton of Neuchâtel. A motorist found himself at the stop in the middle of the tunnel of the Vue-des-Alpes, on a busy motorway axis, according to the Swiss daily newspaper 24 hours. What could have remained a trivial mechanical incident ended up before th…

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autoplus.fr broke the news on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.
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