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In addition it is tripling the maximum BAC
It is credited with the authorship of the crimes alleged reckless driving and driving under the influence of alcohol
The arrested, with police records for crimes against road safety, he was arrested when he collided with another vehicle traveling correctly
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia, at dawn yesterday, intercepted and detained the driver of a van on Highway A-7, at the height of the municipality of Murcia, in a circular, counterclockwise to set direction and driving under the influence of alcohol, since after being subjected to test blood alcohol exceeded more than three times the maximum allowable rate.
Early yesterday, June 13th, and moments after the end of the special control campaign alcohol and drugs organized by the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) and TISPOL Association (European Traffic Police Network), which has developed between 6 and 12 June, the '1-1-2' warned the Traffic Operations Center (COTA) of the Meritorious the sighting of a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction to that established by the a-7, to the Librilla height.
Apparently the vehicle was driving in the direction of Murcia but on the road reserved for vehicles destined for Andalusia.
In this situation, civil guards Sector Traffic established the corresponding specific safety device intended for these cases that ended with the arrest of the vehicle, which made an irregular movement for 11 kilometers in which he passed other vehicles circulating properly, with the obvious risk of accident.
Once road safety established and after moving the van and driver to the service area of ​​La Paz, in the hamlet of Murcia Sangonera la Seca, members of the Association identified the Spanish driver and 49 who showed signs of be under the influence of alcohol, which was subjected to the mandatory test which yielded a result of 0.85 and 0.82 milligrams per liter of air, exceeding rates more than three times the maximum allowable lead which it is 0.25 mg / l.
On these facts the civil guards arrested him on suspicion of two crimes against road safety, one for reckless driving and another for driving under the influence of alcohol, being made available to the Court of Instruction No. 6 Murcia with the proceedings initiated.
The van was also immobilized to justice.
Research conducted by the team Atestados Sector Traffic Murcia shows that the intercepted vehicle had agreed to the motorway in Librilla, intending to move to Alhama de Murcia, but due to the state of intoxication did in the opposite direction and it circulated well for 11 kilometers, although several vehicles that he passed made him signals to be apercibiera abnormality, which were ignored by the now arrested until finally could be intercepted by the Civil Guard.
The offense of reckless driving is enshrined in the Penal Code and can be punished with penalties ranging from imprisonment of 6 months to 2 years and deprivation of the right to drive motor vehicles and mopeds by more than 1 time and up to 6 years .
For its part, the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, with over 0.60 milligrams / liter rates, is enshrined in Article 379 of the Penal Code and can be punished with imprisonment alternatively from 3 to 6 months fine of 6 to 12 months, or work on behalf of the community of 31 to 90 days and in any case with deprivation of the right to drive motor vehicles and mopeds by more than 1 time and up to 4 years.
During this year 2016, to date, on the roads of the region of Murcia there had been two episodes of reckless driving in the opposite direction:
Arrested the driver of a passenger car, a British national with legal residence in Spain, for driving the wrong way on the CT-32 (Cartagena AP-7) motorway, municipality of Cartagena and also driving under the influence of toxic drugs prohibited .
Arrested the driver of a passenger car, of Spanish nationality, after driving 7 kilometers in the opposite direction along the A-30 (Albacete-Cartagena), municipality of Cartagena, five times the blood alcohol limit.
The Civil Guard calls for the cooperation of citizens, to the high danger posed by the movement by road in the opposite direction than usual, so as soon as you detect one of these situations urgently reminded phones 112 (emergency) or 062 (Civil Guard) , advising that wherever possible, except for overtaking, use the right lane of the carriageway of highways and expressways as who lead the wrong way on this type of track, usually use the left lane to believe that circulate by a equipped with a conventional highway lane for each direction.
The Civil Guard continues to reiterate his message to those drivers who recklessly, reckless and despite campaigns and warnings DGT drive after drinking or taking drugs, remembering that, notwithstanding the systematic use regular or special preventive controls 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 for alcohol and drugs will increase 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 public awareness 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 consequences brought by 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.
Also, at the approach of summer, the Traffic Civil Guard anticipates that during the summer a special campaign to control alcohol and drugs on driving, within the timetable set by the DGT and TISPOL Association will be held (European Traffic Police Network), with the aim of spreading the importance of respect for the rules and reduce consumption derived accident alcohol and drugs on driving, to guarantee road safety.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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