The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) begins to deploy its shock plan to reduce the worrying accident figures. In the first quarter of this year, the number of deaths on Spanish roads has increased by 16% compared to the same period of the previous year, according to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
Added to this dynamic are the bad data recorded in 2023, especially in the case of the motorcyclist group. In this group there was a significant increase in the number of accidents and victims.
To stop this trend, the DGT is committed to “more radars, more breathalyzer controls and more Civil Traffic Guard agents.” It will be a “territorialized” plan, so that “each area” can “adapt it to the characteristics of the territory.”
Galicia will be one of the first communities where the new radars will be installed. Specifically, up to ten new devices, as confirmed by the director of the DGT, Pere Navarro, in a visit to the provisional facilities of the Traffic detachment in the Costa Vella Industrial Estate. According to him, there will be five control points and five section radars.
The situation is serious, the institution insists. For example, in Galicia, so far this year, 50% more accidents have been registered, if we compare it with the same period of the previous year.
Although the trend “is not only in Galicia”, but affects all of Spain and other European countries. For this reason, Navarro has asked that the population pay “attention” to driving and avoid risky behavior.
Regarding the origin of this upswing, the head of the DGT links it to tension: “It gives me the impression that we drive as we live, and we live as we live, we are subjected, among one thing and another, to a certain tension and it is possible “That we are transferring this to the road.”