The Government Delegation in Galicia informs that the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) will start from tomorrow, Monday, March 11, a special control and surveillance campaign on the use of the Child Safety and Retention Belt (SRI), which will extend until next Sunday, March 17. The Traffic Group of the Civil Guard, together with the municipal police of those municipalities that join the initiative, will carry out these controls.
The aim of this campaign is to raise awareness of the importance of the use of approved restraint systems, safety belt and CRS. Second, the latest data from the DGT, in Galicia 51% of people who died in traffic accidents in cars or vans in 2023 did not use the belt. In the province of A Coruña, this percentage rises to 57%.
These data are particularly worrying since the use of the belt halves the risk of death in the event of an accident and by 77% in the event of the vehicle’s overturning. The belt’s protective capacity is equally effective for all occupants, passengers travelling in the front seats, and also in the rear seats.
The campaign will consist of a significant increase in controls with the use of the maximum number of human and material resources available. Likewise, whenever possible, both the variable signage panels and the alphanumeric screens of the vehicles of the Civil Guard Traffic Group will warn drivers of the upcoming existence of controls.
Last year’s special campaign
In the same campaign last year, 68,016 cars were controlled in Galicia, of which 931 were reported. In total, 1,096 of the 76,755 controlled vehicles (buses, passenger cars, taxis and goods vehicles) were found to be offenders.