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Mark Diego
April 21, 2023
Until next Sunday the 23rd, the General Directorate of Traffic will be running a new specific surveillance and control campaign focused on speed, one of the key factors in road accidents according to the DGT.
Since last Monday the 17th and until next Sunday April 23 The last special speed monitoring campaign of the General Directorate of Traffic will be underway. Through the agents of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard, as well as the rest of the local police officers who join the initiative, the DGT will redouble its efforts to control and comply with the speed limits established on the different roads.
The reason for this campaign is the high number of accidents in which speed has been a key factor and that is because, as reported by Tráfico, Inappropriate speed is the third most common contributing factor in traffic accidentsespecially in those with fatalities, with more than 251 cases in 2022.
In addition, according to the DGT, it has been shown that speed not only affects the risk of being involved in a traffic accident but also that, the higher the speed, the more difficult it will be to react in time to prevent the accident and more serious will be the injuries produced as a result of this.
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speed control campaign will focus especially on sections of risk associated with speedas well as in those points where traffic exceeds the established limit and there is a high accident rate.
Considering its preventive nature, drivers will be informed of the existence of controls, either through variable message panels, or through circumstantial vertical signage when the road does not have said panels. Those in charge of launching this campaign will be both the agents of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard, as well as the rest of the local and regional police who wish to join it.
Do we comply with the speed limits?
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The Directorate General of Traffic has recently presented the results of the European Baseline Projecta road safety program in which 18 countries have participated and with which it is intended to adequately monitor the progress in road safety of the member countries through 8 key performance indicators related to the behavior of people, vehicles, infrastructure and post-accident care.
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With regard to speed, in Spain the level of compliance with the established speed limit varies depending on the type of road. While On the highway, 63% of passenger cars circulate at the permitted speed (high value compared to other countries), on highways this percentage drops to 51%. In the case of conventional roads, compliance with the established speed limit is 43%, a low level, similar to that registered by Belgium (46%).
On urban roads with a 50km/h limit, the level of speed compliance by passenger cars is 65%the third highest value of the 13 countries with which we share a limit.
For his part, in the streets of 30 km/h, the level of compliance is 32%, the highest value of the three countries for which data are available. It should also be noted that the average speed of cars in streets 30 is 11 km/h lower than that of streets 50 (36 versus 47 km/h), a difference that represents a great reduction in the risk of fatal collisions. or serious.
