The agents of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard and the local and regional police will monitor compliance with the speed limits established on the different roads during the second phase of the exit operation. The objective of the campaign is, following the recommendations of international and European organizations that urge the agencies in charge of road safety in the different countries to monitor that the established speed limits are complied with, especially to control stretches of risk associated with speed, as well as those points where circulation exceeds the established limit and there is a high accident rate.
Due to its preventive nature, drivers will be notified of the existence of controls, either through variable message panels or through circumstantial vertical signage when the road does not have such panels. Those in charge of launching this campaign will be both the agents of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard, as well as the rest of the local and regional police who wish to join it.
From the DGT they remember that in 2021, 588 people died in traffic accidents due to road exits or frontal collisions and in which speed was a transversal factor. As a novelty this summer, and since last March 21, to overtake, it is not allowed to exceed the established speed on conventional roads.
On this type of road, section radars are particularly effective. They have been in operation since 2010, and are installed on highways, dual carriageways and conventional roads, and can be several kilometers long.
To warn drivers of the proximity of a controlled speed section, it is signaled in advance with the corresponding panel.
They are not really ‘radars’ per se, like speedometers. It is a system of cameras that record continuously, identifying the license plate of each vehicle at the entrance and exit of the section. A computer relates the same license plates, checks the passing times and calculates the average speed of the vehicle.
When the average speed of the trip is below the limit, there is no infraction. But if the average speed of the journey exceeds the limit, the complaint of the infraction is processed.
camouflaged motorcycles
will be used by the Civil Guard during this exit operation
Last May, the DGT announced that it would insert 34 camouflaged motorcycles on Spanish roads in an attempt to reduce the accident rate, which seems to have been increasing even despite having introduced the new Traffic and Road Safety Law in March with the same intention. .
Now, Traffic is redoubling its efforts and in the last Council of Ministers 14 million euros were approved to control the speed of drivers, with 46 new control points that will be located throughout the territory, not counting the Basque Country or Catalonia, who have the powers transferred.
These will be deployed in 2023, and 20 of them will be the well-known photo booths; 10 fixed and 16 section radars, which are more dissuasive and effective than traditional ones. Between the months of July and August, Traffic forecasts 93 million long-distance trips, 2.4% more than a year ago.
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The radar located at kilometer 478 of the AP-7. In total throughout last year he put 60,525 fines
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Radar located at kilometer 128 of the A-15, in Navarra, with 57,961 infractions
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Located at kilometer 246 of the A7 in Malaga, with 47,246 fines
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The radar at kilometer 257 of the A-7 in Malaga, issued 45,648 fines
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kilometer 157 of the A-3, in the province of Cuenca, with 45,586 sanctions
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Kilometer point 99, Zamora (Castilla y León) at the height of the A-52, with 44,058 complaints
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In Pontevedra (Galicia) at the height of the A-55 kilometer point 9. He was the author of a total of 40,698 complaints
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Balearic Islands, on the EI-600 kilometer point 10. He was the author of a total of 38,601 fines
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In Malaga, at the height of the MA-20 kilometer point 10, with a total of 36,619 fines
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At the height of the H-31 kilometer point 80 in Huelva (Andalusia), with 29,577 complaints
The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has almost a thousand radars distributed throughout the Spanish geography, between the section and fixed. So far this year, fatalities on motorways and highways have increased by more than 30% compared to the same period in 2019. Road trips and accidents are the types of accidents that have increased the most. Behind the exit of lane is usually excessive speed and distractions. The deaths due to road exit have gone from 45 in 2019 to 57 in 2022 and the abuses have almost doubled, from the 16 deaths in 2019 to the 30 fatalities so far this year. In addition, 60% of deaths on these roads have occurred in accidents that occurred on a working day.
Regarding conventional roads, we must not forget that 7 out of 10 deaths in road accidents take place on this type of road. In addition, since March 21, with the entry into force of the changes introduced in the Law on Traffic, Circulation of Motor Vehicles and Road Safety, passenger cars and motorcycles are not allowed to exceed the speed limits set in the conventional roads when overtaking other vehicles.