The Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, the coordinator of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) in the Canary Islands, Eva Canitrot, and the Chief Lieutenant Colonel of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard (ATGC), Jesús Ángel Hernández, have today presented a new information and accident prevention campaign aimed at motorcyclists with the objective of strengthening road safety in the archipelago.
At a press conference at the headquarters of the Government Delegation in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Anselmo Pestana, Eva Canitrot and Jesús Ángel Hernández have also reported that during the weekends the DGT, through the agents of the Civil Traffic Guard, are increasing surveillance on the roads most frequented by motorcyclists in the Canary Islands to control compliance with the most important rules affecting the driving of motorcycles.
“The Ministry of the Interior, through La DGT and the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard, is redoubling all efforts to increase road safety, particularly in this summer period when there are greater leisure trips, including motorcyclists’ routes on secondary roads,” says the government delegate in the Canary Islands.
“If last week we carried out a specific speed control campaign throughout the Canary Islands, on this occasion we want to influence the role played by motorcyclists in road safety, offering a decalogue to prevent accidents that may have lethal consequences and strengthening controls to ensure that everyone complies with the rules,” he adds.
"We want you back, we want you for sure"
The campaign to inform motorcycle users is part of the measures announced by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, last April to reduce road accidents, and includes a triptych entitled "We want you back, we want you for sure" and a decalogue on road safety that the Civil Guard agents themselves will hand over to the motorcyclists at their checkpoints.
The triptych takes a look at how a motorcycle trip should be done, from the very moment that it is decided that it is going to be the means of travel, and advice is given to move with the five senses, making special mention of the consequences of erroneous equipment, and recalling the most common imprudences that can have unwanted consequences and the most common infractions that users of both wheels usually commit.
The Decalogue of Prevention of Road Accidents in Motorcycle Driving recalls that the prevention of accidents must be a permanent objective for any driver, and especially in motorcycle, due to the vulnerability of the environment.
To do this, ten tips are given that aim to avoid any incident on the road and remember that the road is not a racing circuit and that the important thing is to return.
8 motorcyclists killed in accidents in the first half of 2024 in the Canary Islands
The accident data of the Canary Islands from the first half of 2024 show how 16 accidents were recorded with victims on interurban roads, with 17 people died within 24 hours, of which half, 8, were motorcycle users.
In the breakdown of data by province: in the interurban roads of Las Palmas, 6 accidents with victims and 7 people died within 24 hours (3 motorcyclists) were recorded in the same period of the year, while 10 accidents with victims and 10 people died within 24 hours (5 motorcyclists) occurred in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.