The DGT launches an information campaign to explain the main novelties of the Traffic and Road Safety Law

The changes will come into force on March 21 and among them are the increase to 6 loss points in case of using the mobile phone while driving, to 4 for not using the seat belt or helmet, and the disappearance of the 20 kilometre per hour margin when overtaking on conventional roads.

The General Directorate of Traffic this week launched a new information campaign with the aim of explaining the main changes in the Law on Traffic, Circulation of Motor Vehicles and Road Safety that will come into force on 21 March.

Under the slogan “New times. New rules”, the campaign, which can be seen in digital media, the written press, social networks with the hashtag # NuevosTiemposNuevasNormas and heard on radio between February 15 and March 21, aims to publicise the most important novelties of this law that tries to adapt to the current reality of drivers.

The media campaign will focus on seven of these developments with the aim of clearly explaining the most important changes introduced.

The campaign explains that, for example, from now on using the mobile phone while driving will subtract 6 points from our points credit instead of 3, in the same way that the penalty for not using the seat belt, helmet or corresponding child restraint system, all without an increase in the economic penalty. In addition, the time required to elapse without committing offences for a driver to recover their initial balance of points is unified to 2 years.

Emphasis is also placed on the suppression of the 20 kilometre per hour margin to overtake on conventional roads that existed until now and on other measures aimed at the cyclist community, such as the obligation, on roads with more than one lane in each direction, to change lanes when overtaking cyclists or mopeds or the prohibition of stopping or parking in bike lanes or cycle paths.

But as the reform of the Law has been broader and more articles have been modified, not only referring to the permit by points, a specific page has been created within the DGT website where the most important changes can be consulted.

https://www.dgt.es/muevete-con-seguridad/conoce-las-normas-de-trafico/nuevas-leyes/

According to Pere Navarro, General Director of Traffic, “it is an obligation that we have as an Administration to explain to citizens the changes that have occurred in the Traffic and Road Safety Law. It is opportune and necessary that they know about the modifications because if they are known and explained, most citizens will internalise them and comply with them, because we must not forget that in mobility the personal behaviour we adopt when we move usually has direct consequences for oneself and for the rest of the users who share the road”.