The DGT begins tomorrow in Galicia a speed control campaign focused on conventional roads and urban areas

The Government Delegation in Galicia informs that the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) will start tomorrow, Monday, April 15, a speed control campaign that will especially affect conventional roads (those that have only one lane in each direction) and the urban roads of the Galician community. This initiative, which is part of the DGT’s annual programming, aims to achieve a greater reduction in average speed and will be maintained throughout the week, until Sunday 21.

The campaign will be coordinated by the provincial traffic headquarters and will use the maximum possible means, with the notification, when possible, of the existence of controls through the variable signage panels and on the alphanumeric screens of the vehicles of the Traffic Group located in the immediate vicinity.

In addition, in these controls the DGT will have the support of the different local police of the municipalities in its field of action, a very important collaboration to unify the message of respect to the limits of speed established regardless of the route through which it is circulated.

The controls shall ensure compliance with the generic and specific limits for speed, speed in overtaking and distances between vehicles. In this regard, it should be remembered that in March 2022 the rule that prevents drivers from passing the speed by 20km/h to advance on conventional roads came into force.

The campaign seeks to raise awareness among drivers of the close relationship between inadequate speed and accidents. Unlike the incompatibility between alcohol and driving or the use of the safety belt and helmet, which are not questioned, the consideration of speed as a risk factor did not acquire the same level of acceptance among drivers, despite the fact that excessive speed was in 2022 the first most frequent concurrent cause in fatal traffic accidents in Galicia.

In addition, controls will be strengthened on those more dangerous sections of conventional roads where there are more accidents and deaths with speed as a concurrent factor.

Last year's special campaign

During the seven days of the surveillance and speed control campaign launched by the General Directorate of Traffic between 17 and 23 April 2023, the agents of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard controlled the speed of 154,028 vehicles in Galicia.

Of the total number of vehicles controlled, 10,866 drivers were found to be offenders and therefore denounced for overspeed.