More than 3,000 drivers tested positive for alcohol and/or drugs out of the total of 200,000 that have been controlled during the last special surveillance and control campaign of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) carried out this August. And it is that despite the increase in the number of controls carried out with respect to the previous year’s campaign (48,000 more), the percentage of drivers driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs remains relatively stable.
This means that 444 drivers were detected each day behind the wheel after having consumed alcohol and/or drugs, most of them (83.6%) after a preventive control and the rest due to infractions, accidents or due to symptoms.
In the case of alcohol, professional drivers, motorcyclists and novice drivers have represented 3.9% of the positives in this campaign, with 18, 35 and 48 cases respectively. In general terms, of the 200,731 breathalyzer tests carried out, 2,591 were positive and, of these, proceedings have been opened against 262 drivers and they have been brought to justice, either for driving with a rate higher than 0.60 mg/l in air, good for refusing to take the test.
Regarding drugs, of the 514 drivers who tested positive for some substance, as usual, the majority did so for cannabis (69%), followed by those who did so for cocaine (42%), amphetamines and methamphetamines (31 %) and opioids (6%). In addition, 12 drivers were brought to justice for driving under the influence of psychotropic substances or for refusing to take a drug test.