Going to the supermarket is one of the most daily and standardized actions today. be to a small store close to home or a hypermarket Inside a shopping center, there are many people who do the shopping every day.
In the case of some establishments of this type, it is common for them to have your own parking area, to make it easier for consumers to load their purchase into their own cars. In addition, these areas also usually include specific spaces with a structure in which to place the shopping carts that have been used inside the supermarket, and they are taken to the trunk for greater ease.
But what is the relationship described with traffic fines? Although it may seem that nothing is connected, the truth is that even inside a parking lot of a supermarket or a shopping center you can receive a financial penalty of this type due to a fairly common occurrence.
Specifically, we refer to leave a shopping cart wrong placed or out of its correct place. This action, a priori, may seem innocuous, but nothing is further from reality.
Abandoning or leaving the shopping cart in an inappropriate place in the parking lot, that obstructs the passage of vehicles or hinders it, is grounds for a fine, as reported by the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). And it does not only happen with the car, but also with bags or other similar objects.
This standard addresses the ‘Scope of application of the regulations on traffic, circulation of motor vehicles and road safety‘ of the BOE, specifically to article 4.2:
“It is prohibited to throw, deposit or abandon on the road objects or materials that may hinder free movement, stop or parking, make them dangerous or deteriorate the road or its facilities, or produce effects on it or in its vicinity that modify the appropriate conditions for driving. , stop or park”.
By following these guidelines, a traffic officer might see fit to fine to any person who performs these acts, which would entail an economic sanction of 80 euros.
Can you fine a car park?
Many may think that since it is a private area, this regulation is not adequate, since it belongs to the land of a supermarket. But, for the purposes of Traffic, the regulations say that, even if these places are private, sand I could consider public road because there are a large number of vehicles that circulate in that place. In the case of car parks in, for example, an urbanization, this exception would not apply.
Thus, it is worth remembering that reproducing any of the actions that are included in the cited article, such as leaving the shopping cart on the street, would imply the same infraction that could also be fined.