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The percentage of positive blood alcohol prevention has dropped to 5% nationally in 2001 to 1.7% in 2013
Local Police Caravaca de la Cruz has deployed in recent days preventive controls documentation and alcohol at the entrances and exits of the town and at the entrances to the villages of Archivel Barranda, Singla, Navares and The Almudema.
Thus, the Department of Public Safety and Traffic supports campaigns on a monthly basis Launches Traffic Department.
In total, officers monitored a total of 157 vehicles, including cars and trucks, of which six were punished for administrative infraction to exceed the permitted level of alcohol and one for driving without a vehicle inspection (ITV) in force.
As highlighted by the councilman of Public Safety and Traffic, Pedro Antonio Muñoz, "the local police have seen how most drivers circulates with the documentation in order and that an increasing number of drivers who have raised awareness is greater with zero tolerance for drinking and driving, regardless of the route by circulating ".
The Traffic Department, through its headquarters in Murcia, invites local police to join monthly preventive campaigns and random checks of various types, such as alcohol, drugs, belt, and dangerous goods documentation, among others.
One reason to continue doing this type of campaign is the realization that increasing preventive controls is one factor that is encouraging behavioral change of citizens in this area, making the percentage of positive preventive controls BAC has dropped from 5% in 2001 to 1.7% in 2013.
However, alcohol is still present as a triggering factor in a third of fatal accidents and their presence in driving depending on the rate, multiplied between 2 and 15 the risk of an accident.
The target set in the Road Safety Strategy 2011-2020 is lower than 1% positive for alcohol in randomized preventive controls.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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