When the DGT announced the measures to regulate traffic during the summer months, it recapitulated the means of control and surveillance of drivers, explaining, for example, that there will be 34 new camouflaged motorcycles added to the fleet of vehicles, supported in enforcement by the 780 fixed radars, 92 of them sectional, figures from which the roads of Catalonia and the Basque Country are excluded.
For next year, there will be more. The Council of Ministers approved an agreement of the Ministry of the Interior “related to safety on the roads”, which will involve the investment of 14 million euro in new fixed and section speed cameras. Specifically, the money will be invested in 20 cabins and 26 new devices, of which 16 will be sectional (more expensive but effective) and the rest, fixed at a single point.
The measure has been announced by the Minister of Territorial Policy and spokesperson for the Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, who recalled that last year 1,004 people died on the road, “largely due to speeding… That is why, these days in those that are going to produce many displacements, it is important to remember that the speed is moderated”.
According to DGT statistics, since 2016 the first cause of fatal incidents is distractions, with almost a third of the total. Next comes the consumption of alcohol and drugs and, in third place, speeding.
The tables turn when it comes to fines. During the past year, the DGT entered 444 million euro in fines, 9% more than in 2019. And it imposed almost 4.8 million sanctions, of which 2.2 million came from fixed radars (including section). That is to say, almost 46% to which another 863,000 complaints of mobile radars should be added (another 18%). In the ‘worst’ case, if all these fines had been collected at the minimum allowed (100 euro reduced to 50 for prompt payment), speeding drivers would have forked out some 150 million euro for breaking the law.
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