The authorities in charge of ensuring road safety often use social networks to spread their messages to users. Information about the state of the roads, safe driving tips or a review of traffic regulations are some of the content they regularly share through platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and Facebook.
These social networks have become effective tools to keep citizens informed and aware of the importance of road safety. In the messages, both the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) and other organizations in charge of the matter encourage responsible behavior behind the wheel with the intention of reducing accidents on the roads.
One of these groups that have the mission of guaranteeing road safety and controlling and supervising traffic on Spanish roads, with the exception of Catalonia and Euskadi, is the Civil Guard. It does this through its traffic group, which is made up of more than 8,000 agents, of which more than 6,000 patrol on motorcycles, who carry out daily patrols on the roads under their jurisdiction.
The Civil Guard also actively uses social networks to transmit its messages. On many occasions, as we have seen in Moveo, Benemérita does not hesitate to resort to irony or humor so that the messages resonate with users. This strategy not only aims to inform, but also to effectively connect with motorists to raise awareness about driving safety.
In a recent message on X, the armed force publishes an image that has not gone unnoticed by social media users. In the photograph you can see a sign indicating the end of an accident concentration section that coincidentally is placed next to the cemetery wall. In fact, on one of the supports of the DGT information poster there is a sign that says ‘cemetery’.
“The poetic coincidence of some road signs could become the obituary you would never have wanted. On the road it is better not to leave anything in the hands of chance, use all five senses when driving”, is the text that appears in the post with the macabre image.
The photograph, which the armed force had previously published on social networks, belongs to the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. Specifically, it is kilometer 3 of the N-232, also known as the Castellón highway, where the La Cartuja cemetery is located, according to an X user.
The General Directorate of Highways uses the term accident concentration section (TCA) to refer to the dangerous points of a road network. In its publications, this body dependent on the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda makes the following definition of TACs: “Those sections of the network that present a frequency of accidents significantly higher than the average of sections with similar characteristics, and in which that, foreseeably, an action to improve infrastructure can lead to an effective reduction in accidents.”
The concept of TCA is different from that of black point, which is the name used by the DGT, fundamentally because for its identification accidents with victims over a period of time greater than one year and over a length of at least one kilometer are considered. Likewise, the type of road (high-capacity road or conventional road) and the area through which it runs (interurban or urban and peri-urban), as well as the volume of traffic, are also taken into account.
You can consult the TCAs identified by the General Directorate of Highways at this link from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda.
A black spot, on the other hand, is that stretch of road in which “during a calendar year there have been 3 or more accidents with victims, with a maximum separation between them of 100 meters”, according to the DGT’s own definition. Black spots are located on secondary roads as well as on highways or highways.
