The DGT removes all mobile radars to monitor speed

From this Monday and until next Sunday, July 10, the Directorate-General for Traffic is launching a new specific surveillance and control campaign that will focus on this occasion on one of the most important factors in road accidents: speed.

To reduce these numbers, many of the available mobile radars will be sent in labeled vehicles and in camouflaged vehicles during the campaign and throughout the summer. On this occasion, the agents of the Traffic Group of the Guardia Civil and the local and regional police joining the campaign will monitor compliance with the speed limits established on the various roads.

The aim of the campaign is to follow the recommendations of international and European organizations urging the authorities responsible for road safety in the different countries to ensure compliance with the speed limits set, in particular to control the risk areas related to speed, as well as those points where the circulation exceeds the established limit and there is a high accident rate.

The thematic report on speed as a concurrent factor, conducted by the European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO) in 2021, concludes that 30% of road deaths are caused by excessive or inappropriate speed. In addition, according to the DGT, in 2021 with preliminary 24-hour data, 588 people died in road accidents resulting from exits or head-on collisions where speed was a cross-cutting factor. These are reasons that justify the presence of speed traps on Spanish roads during these first days of July.

Due to its preventive nature, drivers will be notified of the existence of controls, either through variable message panels or through indirect vertical signage where the road does not have such panels. Those responsible for launching this campaign are both the agents of the Civil Guard’s Traffic Group and the rest of the local and regional police who want to join it.

Source: La Verdad

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