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The Local Police of Torre Pacheco adds to the campaign of special vigilance and awareness about the risk involved in drug or alcohol consumption and the driving started by the General Traffic Department (DGT), and in this context, Starts Friday, will be intensified until August 15 testing alcohol and drugs drivers.
In this regard, Councilor for Citizen Security, Juan Salvador Sánchez, has considered "the importance of collaboration" of the different bodies and security forces of the different administrations with active responsibility in road safety, and stressed that " All resources to continue improving the results in a matter of vital importance. "
Also, Sánchez recalled the need to "progress socially from education and from the responsibility of citizens to eliminate a factor that multiplies by three the risk, as is the presence of alcohol or drugs in driving, and behind Almost a third of fatal accidents. "
One of the most important reasons to carry out this type of campaigns is the confirmation that the increase of preventive controls is one of the factors that is favoring a change of behavior of the citizens on this matter, making the percentage of positive in controls Blood alcohol consumption has dropped significantly in the last decade, from 5.1% to 1.6%.
Despite this, alcohol is still present as a concurrent or triggering factor in a third of fatal accidents and their presence in driving depending on the rate, multiplies between 2 and 15 the risk of an accident.
The only safe rate is 0.0%.
Regardless of the effect on drivers, alcohol is also a risk for pedestrians, as a user of the road that shares the public space with others, mainly in urban areas.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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