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The agents have registered cases in which the maximum speed tripled in the urban helmet.
2017 closed with 798 accidents in the municipal network, the vast majority circulating at a speed above the allowed.
During the next 2 months drivers who exceed the maximum speed and are identified by the local police radar will receive a warning.
Once this period has passed, they will be sanctioned according to the current norm.
The Councilor for Citizen Security in the City of Lorca, María Belén Pérez, reported that the City Council found in 2017 an increase of 11.29% over the previous year in the number of accidents in municipal ownership, which means a negative figure that highlights the need to redouble efforts on the part of administrations and individuals to reduce this figure.
In concrete figures, Lorca has gone from 717 accidents in 2016 to 798 in 2017, which represents an increase of 81 accidents.
Pérez Martínez has stated that in practically all of these accidents, circulation at a high speed has been established as a common factor, exceeding the legal parameters established by traffic regulations.
This is reflected in the reports that are prepared daily by agents of our Local Police, and whose review concludes that it is more than necessary to establish the appropriate mechanisms to contribute to raising awareness of the serious risks of driving in violation of the norm, as well as having the possibility to penalize these incivil, imprudent and broken behaviors for road safety.
The Security Edil explained that this situation has caused the Municipal Administration to urgently undertake an awareness campaign, based on messages remembering the main rules governing the circulation, especially in relation to the maximum speed in each way, the obligations of the driver and the technical condition of the vehicle.
We are talking about a problem that has been transferred to us by citizens at street level, as well as by numerous members of the wide associative fabric of the municipality, who have demanded that we proceed to the adoption of measures to tackle these dangerous behaviors for road safety, which entails a risk for all citizens.
This campaign will include the remission during a period of 2 months of notifications to those drivers who are detected circulating at a speed that violates the law.
It is about citizens being aware that exceeding the established parameters entails risk situations not only for the person who plays them, but also that they can harm third parties.
These notices will be sent with the calculations made by the Local Police mobile radar.
Once the period of 2 months has passed, those identified above the established speed will be sanctioned in compliance with current legislation.
Pérez Martínez has explained that there have been situations of special imprudence in the circulation at excessive speed, as it has been the case of vehicles that transited through urban roads tripling the established limit, an absolutely counterproductive behavior before which Lorca can not remain defenseless.
It should be noted that the excessive speed of traffic generates, in addition to unnecessary situations of risk for road safety, a notable increase in the polluting emissions, due to the exponential increase of the emissions coming from the vehicles when raising the speed, at the same time as the fuel consumption of the vehicle itself goes up and, in many cases, noise pollution also increases.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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