2023-04-16 12:17:00
File image of a Civil Guard speed control. Santi M. Amile
The initiative, which will focus on conventional highways and urban roads, seeks to make drivers aware of the relationship between inappropriate speed and accidents.
16 abr 2023 . Updated at 12:17 p.m.
The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) will begin this Monday, April 17, a speed control campaign It must especially affect conventional highways (those that have only one lane in each direction) and urban roads in Galicia. It will be maintained throughout the week, until Sunday the 23rd.
With this initiative, which is part of the annual programming of the DGT, it seeks to achievea further reduction in average speedThe controls will monitor compliance with generic and specific speed limits, distances between vehicles and overtaking speed. Regarding the latter, in March 2022 the rule that prevents drivers from exceeding the speed of 20km/h to overtake on conventional roads came into force.
Controls will be strengthened in those most dangerous sections of conventional roads where a greater number of accidents and fatalities occur with speed as a concurrent factor.
The campaign will be coordinated by the Provincial Traffic Headquarters and use the maximum possible means, notifying the existence of controls through the variable signaling panels and on the alphanumeric screens of the Traffic vehicles located in the vicinity, the latter when may be possible.
In addition, in these checkpoints the DGT will have the support of the different local police of the municipalities in its area of action, an important collaboration to unify the message of respect for the speed limits established regardless of the road on which it circulates.
The campaign seeks to raise awareness among drivers of the close relationship between inappropriate speed and accidents. Unlike the incompatibility between alcohol and driving or the use of seat belts and helmets, which are not questioned, the DGT points out that the consideration of speed as a risk factor has not acquired the same level of acceptance among drivers, even though in 22% of the fatal accidents registered in Spain in 2019 speed was seen as a concurrent factor.
Regarding the data on infractions for 2021, in Galicia the 378,798 sanctions for inappropriate speed, a figure that represents seven out of every ten offenses committed on the highway that year. Of this total, 220,677 offenses were detected by fixed speed cameras and 158,121 by mobile speed cameras. The total number of sanctions registered in Galicia was 509,294.
During the campaign that took place last year, in July 2022, 202,411 vehicles were checked, of which 14,144 drivers were offenders and, therefore, reported for speeding, which represents 7% of the total.
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