2023-12-10 14:17:00
Archive image of a breathalyzer test Ana Garcia
In last year’s campaign, more than 35,000 controls and sanctions were carried out on 812 drivers.
10 dic 2023 . Updated at 1:17 p.m.
The General Traffic Directorate (DGT) begins this Monday a new special control campaign on alcohol rate and the presence of drugs in conductors that extend until Sunday December 17.
Due to the Christmas dates, the campaign will have a special impact on the leisure areasmany of them in urban areas, so the City Councils and their local police will be involved.
The objective, the Government Delegation has highlighted, is to raise awareness about the risks of alcohol and drug consumption while driving, factors that, they recall, are present in a third of fatal accidents, as a concurrent or causative factor. These data emerge from the Memory of toxicological investigations into fatalities from traffic accidents in 2022which reveals that of the 854 drivers who died in Spain in traffic accidents and underwent autopsy and toxicological analysis, 443 tested positive for alcohol, drugs or psychotropic drugs.
The last Autonomous Commission on Road Safety announced that so far this year the Civil Traffic Guard carried out in Galicia 700,000 alcohol tests and 8,000 drug tests. Of these, 11,300 alcohol tests were positive, as were 277 drug tests. In addition, the Civil Guard opened criminal proceedings against 1,400 drivers for having alcohol and drug levels in their blood that constitute a crime.
812 sanctions in the same campaign last year
The Government Delegation has highlighted that in the same campaign carried out between December 5 and 11 of last year in Galicia 35,029 drivers were checked and 812 were sanctionedof which 535 were positive for alcohol and 277 for drugs.
By province, where the most positives were detected was in A Corua, with 374; followed by Pontevedra, with 196; Lugo, with 158; and Ourense, with 84.
Filed in: DGT Alcoholemia
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