The DGT finalizes the ban on warnings between drivers about alcohol and drug checks: “It must be put on the track legally”

2024-10-23 17:19:00

The Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) has already decided that it will prohibit warnings among drivers in this regard alcohol and drug checks on the streetsa practice that occurs through social networks and instant messaging applications, such as WhatsApp or Telegram.

This was revealed on Wednesday by the Director General of Traffic, Pere Navarro, closing the XIX Forum against road violence, held in Madrid under the organization of Stop Accidents and with the motto “The media and the treatment of road accidents”.

“I don’t see the point of it figure of intelligent boy who found a way to evade control,” Navarro assured, before stating: “We’ve already designed it. Now it remains to be seen where we enter the track legally. But come on, the text is there, we have everything. “We will prohibit information about alcohol and drug checks by the police on social networks.”

Navarro also specified that the issue emerged in a meeting with Stop Accidents and the Guardia Civil of A Coruña, and underlined that these alcohol and drug control notices are “nonsense” because those who drive while intoxicated “You can carry anyone forward”.

This was announced at the end of last month by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska Juneafter presenting the summer campaign of the DGT, which had commissioned this organization to study whether it was appropriate to ban these warnings between drivers.

Marlaska then underlined that officers of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard have detected “alerts” on the location of breathalyzer checks through social networks and instant messaging services, which “decreases” “effectiveness” and the “operation” of these actions. “And what is most serious: it puts the lives of many people at risk,” he added.

«I want to say it very clearly: it is a practice that is at least not very supportive and uncivilized because that ban will allow the drunk driver to escape control and possibly causes irreversible consequences for third parties,” he added.