The age of the vehicle doubles the risk of dying or being seriously injured in an accident, so proper maintenance of safety elements is an ally in the fight against accidents. For this reason, the DGT has launched a campaign to monitor and control the proper maintenance of the vehicle, involving elements such as:
tires, lighting, ITVand it will last until October 16.
In addition to helping to reduce accidents, good car maintenance can prevent us from being fined. In the latest campaigns
control of the DGT The most common deficiencies, for which we can be penalized, are driving with the expired, unfavorable or negative ITV, or driving without.
Numerous vehicles have also been detected with poor tire condition because they have a tread depth below the legal minimum of 1.6mm or a
uneven wear due to poor suspension or misalignment and driving with incorrect pressure.
To these shortcomings must be added the poor lighting, deteriorated number plates, the lack of d
mandatory documentation of the vehicle, and finally the improper conditioning of the cargo and the excess weight in vans and trucks.
Driving with an expired inspection means committing a serious offense that:
will be penalized with 200 euroswhich can amount to 500 euros if the traffic controller is of the opinion that the detected defects could endanger road safety.
As reflected in the
Spanish Road Safety Strategy 2030designating safe and connected vehicles as a strategic area has shown that the age of the vehicle is a risk factor in a road accident: the risk of death or serious injury doubles in an accident for the occupants traveling in vehicles from 10 to 15 years old , compared to occupants of vehicles younger than 5 years.
On interurban roads in 2021, for cars and vans, the average age of the vehicles involved in fatal crashes was 13 years for cars and 10.8 years for vans, while taking into account the vehicles in which the fatalities traveled,
the average seniority increases to 15.4 and 12.6, respectively.
That is why the Directorate-General for Traffic includes in its annual campaign calendar the supervision of the proper maintenance of all safety elements of vehicles as an essential activity to combat accidents.
The campaign, which will run
until Sunday 16 Octoberwill focus, among other things, on assessing the proper maintenance and adjustment of tyres, brakes, lights and ITV signaling and validity.
About every year
50,000 vehicles are left behind by their holders on public roads and about 6,000 in workshops, warehouses and public parking lots.
With the new interpretation of Article 106 of the Law on Traffic, Motor Vehicle Movement and Road Safety, the DGT introduces a smooth administrative procedure so that vehicles left in private areas can be removed to
a recognized treatment center vehicles for demolition and decontamination.
It is estimated that there are currently 20,000 abandoned vehicles in areas such as shopping mall parking garages, private housing projects, private garages, hotel parking garages, owner’s communities, etc. Hereafter:
Data subjects no longer have to initiate civil proceedings. and they will benefit from this more flexible administrative procedure.
Therefore, with the aim of responding to the demand of companies, citizens and various government departments that find themselves in this situation with vehicles,
the DGT has published an Instruction to manage their destruction and decontamination. It develops Article 106 of the Law on Traffic, Motor Vehicles and Road Safety, collecting the assumptions previously provided for in the LSV and extending them with new ones, in particular those of abandonment on unintended private property, so that the competent administration can order the transfer of the vehicle to an approved vehicle processing center for subsequent destruction and decontamination.
Prior to the order to transfer the vehicle, the Administration
must require the owner of the same to warn you that if you do not remove it from where it is parked within one month it will be handed over to an authorized vehicle handling center.
The age of the vehicle doubles the risk of death or serious injury in an accident. The DGT has published an instruction to manage the destruction and decontamination of the more than 20,000 vehicles currently believed to have been abandoned by their owners in private areas and public parking lots
In the event that the vehicle subject to residual treatment due to abandonment is still in the conditions of normal use, the Instruction provides for the possibility for the competent authority to replace the residual treatment by granting it in advance to the traffic enforcement authorities.
Provincial Traffic Chief.
The Instruction also considers both the actions to be taken and the obligations to be fulfilled in the event that the vehicle is left in public parking or private areas, such as, for example, owners’ communities, supermarket car parks,
shopping malls, airports, workshops… and it is not damaged or damaged. In order to avoid misuse of this figure, the Designation provides for a tightening of the documentation requirement that the applicant must submit in the case of private properties (administration certificate, notarial deed or photos).
Source: La Verdad
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