A Decade Helping the Community

This year marks a decade since the N332 road safety group was launched, marking a decade helping the international community in Spain stay a little safer on the roads.

N332 was originally the brainchild of a Guardia Civil Traffic Officer posted in Torrevieja, Francisco Javier Morales, who that after years patrolling the road of the province of Alicante realised that foreign drivers often commit the same infractions and get involved in accidents because of applying regulations of their countries, which are often different from the Spanish ones.

So, with the idea of reducing the amount of traffic offences and accidents due to the lack of knowledge of the Spanish traffic law, he decided to open a Facebook page called N332, the name of the main road he patrols daily. Francisco began to post a photo with a short text in English explaining what the driver did wrong to avoid others to do it again. The news about this new page run by a police officer spread quickly among the international residents, reaching 10.000 followers in less than one year.

Many international medias were interested in interviewing the officer and this was when he met the journalist and driving instructor Mark Nolan, who after the interview decided to join this road safety project.

Together, Francisco and Mark have been visiting associations and groups of foreigners explaining the Spanish Law. In addition, they have done talks in the British schools of the Alicante and Murcia provinces to raise awareness about the use of the helmets and regulations of the e-scooters.

During all these years, Mark have published different e-books as well as a periodic e-magazine while Francisco has edited a free guide explaining the most common traffic offences committed by the international drivers when driving in Spain.

After 10 years, the page is about to reach the 300.000 followers becoming on the most popular page of the country in the English language.

For the future, the groups have plans to bring more information to more people, developing different ways of reaching the community, both in person, and in the virtual world, and across all ages.

To keep up to date, make sue you follow N332 on Facebook, and visit the website, n332.es.