Traffic police double speed-traps
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 @ 2:58 PM
SPEED-TRAPS on Spain's roads are set to double this week in light of the extra traffic on minor and major highways with tourists heading for coast and country.
Surveys show that just over a third of drivers admit to breaking the limits on secondary roads, which is where eight in 10 fatal accidents occur.
A total of 37% say they drive too fast on motorways, and 11% on town roads.
Excessive speed is a factor in three in 10 crashes where one or more people die, and also sharply increases the risk of survivors suffering serious injuries leading to lifelong, permanent disabilities.
Last year, over 7,000 accidents in Spain were a direct cause of speeding, and the European report Sartre 3 reveals how Spanish drivers break the limit more than the average motorist on the continent.
Speed cameras which are visible to drivers, more obscure ones where the location is published on the traffic authority website, DGT.es in advance, and detectors from the air fitted to helicopters such as Pegasus, which are capable of reading a registration number, photographing a car and its driver in detail, and confirming the exact speed it is travelling at, from a kilometre up in the air.
Read more at thinkSPAIN.com