The DGT has today launched a campaign dedicated to the control of School Transport, which will last until May 26, in which inspections will be carried out on vehicles (authorizations and documents, technical conditions and safety elements, belts and restraint systems) and on drivers (driving licence, driving times and breaks), especially on conventional roads and on urban roads.
In the previous campaign, held in December 2022 in Extremadura, a total of 159 vehicles were controlled (96 in Badajoz and 63 in Cáceres), of which 121 were reported (83 in Badajoz and 38 in Cáceres).
According to data from the DGT, school transport is the first road safety collective to reach the “zero vision” objective, with zero deaths in traffic accidents since 2012. The School Transportation Study: Do our children travel safely? of the Fundación Linea Direccion (2020), has calculated that with regard to school transport children under 15 years of age who travel in private cars multiply by 11 the risk of suffering an accident. It also points out that the majority of accidents in school transport with victims are concentrated in interurban roads, with distractions being the most frequent punishable offences, followed by lack of attention to the priority of other vehicles, inadequate speed and failure to respect the safety distance.