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It is credited with the authorship of three offenses alleged against road safety manifestly reckless driving, driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs
He made ​​a sharp change in direction, to avoid a control, and an accident caused three injuries and major damage to commercial premises
About 3,000 drivers checked during the weekend with 56 positive for alcohol and 20 drugs
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia, early Sunday, stopped the driver of a passenger car in Archena by circular manifestly recklessly with conscious disregard for the lives of others, after eluding a police checkpoint, resulting in his hasty flight a serious accident circulation of whom three were injured in varying degrees, after colliding with another impact tourism and finally against the facade of a commercial establishment.
The arrest is framed in the broad device deployed by the traffic sector in the early hours of the morning of May 29, comprising simultaneous verification checks blood alcohol and drugs on different roads in the region of Murcia and in the Plan Police operational Response to Trafficking and drug use in entertainment and fun and the Road Safety Strategy 2010-2020 of the DGT to raise drivers' awareness of the dangers of driving with excess alcohol or drugs.
The performance began about 1:30 pm last Sunday, May 29, when the driver of a car traveling on the RM-522 (Archena-Ojós) road sense Ojós, detected the existence of a checkpoint breathalyzer drugs and Guardia Civil was being done as a preventive measure on the occasion of the traditional celebrations of Corpus Christi.
Under this circumstance the driver made a sudden change gears and immediately undertook a hasty and dangerous flight at high speed to go into the town of Archena, where at that moment was passing a large crowd of people who were celebrating the holidays also forcing several vehicles with which it crossed his career irresponsible stop their march and take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision.
Finally, the vehicle left for him right margin of the road up to a roundabout Archena, he broke the railing separating the sidewalk and crashed into the facade of a commercial establishment that it caused great destruction, until eventually collide with another vehicle traveling at that place, the two occupants were seriously wounded.
The result of this police intervention, effective Sector Traffic Civil Guard of Murcia immediately arrested the driver of the runaway Spanish tourism and 27, who was taken to the quartering of Archena for the instruction of the relevant proceedings.
Given the clear and obvious to be under the influence of alcohol and other drugs symptoms, was arrested subjected to mandatory breath tests, which yielded a rate of 0.71 and 0.67 milligrams of alcohol per liter in air exhaled, in separate tests, tripling therefore the maximum allowable rate.
Similarly it underwent screening drug that gave positive in cocaine and cannabis.
On these facts it is attributed the alleged authorship of three offenses against road safety reckless driving with conscious disregard for the lives of others (1), influence of alcohol (2) and influence of drugs (3), being made available the Court of Instruction No. 2 of Molina de Segura (Murcia).
As a result of this event, causing vehicle damage was large and had to be removed by a crane also being available to the judicial authority.
As circulation was partially interrupted for almost an hour, members of the local police in Archena collaborated with the Traffic Civil Guard in the activities of traffic regulation during this time until he could restore normal circulation.
In this event it was also injured consideration, as a result of the strong impact, a friend of the detainee who was riding in the front seat of the vehicle that caused and, at the risk of his life he experienced with this reckless behavior, repeatedly he requested his companion to desist and stop without success.
Fortunately, and although they have resulted in three people injured, there has been no regret a disgrace with incalculable consequences, given the high number of pedestrians at the time of these events were walking in the vicinity of place, to be celebrating the famous festivals of Corpus the town of Archena.
Nearly 3,000 drivers checked during the weekend
During this weekend and check the various devices deployed alcohol and drugs, the Traffic Department of the Region of Murcia has controlled a total of 2,838 drivers, of which 56 yielded positive results in alcohol (1.97% ).
Among these he has been arrested six drivers for doing so under the influence of alcohol, which have been brought to justice, and the rest (50) have been reported by administrative offense (BAC) before the Provincial Traffic Headquarters of Murcia.
They have also been reported 20 drivers for driving having consumed drugs or other narcotic substances prohibited.
Especially highlight the controls in the vicinity of the towns of Archena and Alcantarilla, in response to the massive influx of motivated by the celebration of their festivals traditional local, where he controlled almost half of total drivers (1,246) vehicles, of which 29 tested positive outcome in alcohol (2.32%), having been arrested and brought to justice two drivers to exceed the rate of 0.60 mg / l established in the penal code and the other 27 reported to the Provincial Traffic Authority of Murcia, and another 11 reported by circular presence of drugs in the body.
The offense of reckless driving with undisguised contempt for the lives of others is enshrined in the Penal Code and can be punished with sentences ranging from prison of two to five years, a fine of 12 to 24 months and deprivation of right to drive motor vehicles and mopeds from 6 to 10 years.
Meanwhile, driving under the influence of alcohol and in any case, with rates above 0.60 mg / l.
alcohol in exhaled air has identified alternative prison sentences of three to six months, a fine of 6 to 12 months or work for the benefit of the community of 31 to 90 days, and the suspension of the right to drive for longer time 1 year and up to 4 years.
The same penalty corresponds to driving under the influence of drugs.
Also, driving motor vehicle with alcohol rates above 0.25 mg / L (0.15 mg / l, novice and professional drivers) and up to 0.60 mg / l, since the last reform of the Road Safety Act, may be accompanied by a financial penalty of 500-1000 euros, and the loss of four to six points.
Similarly we act when the driver ingested drugs or other prohibited substances, which may determine either an alleged crime against road safety punished with the same penalties as in the case of alcohol, either an administrative complaint, which is sanctioned in the latter if 1,000 euro fine and the loss of 6 points.
In all cases the affected vehicles are immobilized with special devices that prevent their movement until their drivers are able to continue their journey, once they have lowered the blood alcohol level or missing the presence of drugs or take over other drivers enabled and previous appropriate tests.
The Civil Guard reiterates its message to those drivers who recklessly and reckless, despite campaigns and warnings from the General Directorate of Traffic, driving after drinking or taking drugs, remembering that, notwithstanding the systematic controls regular preventive or special, given the proximity of summer and the considerable increase in movements involved both long journey to the vacation spots as especially short distance derived from leisure activities and festive, performing the required tests will increase alcohol and drugs to all drivers that are reported by the commission of offenses, involvement in accidents or those where consumption is detected in the course of other surveillance and inspection to be carried out, in order to raise awareness citizens of the incompatibility of these substances with driving given the loss of reflexes and abilities to control vehicles pose, and thereby ensure road safety on our roads, avoiding, in this way, the production of road accidents and serious considerations that these entail, appealing to the use of collective transport or alternative formulas for these displacements are not getting behind the wheel in these conditions, especially by younger drivers.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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