• Traffic: Road deaths rise 9% since the end of the alarm state
  • Roads: fear that accidents will skyrocket this summer

More than 570,000 drivers have been penalized in the last decade for committing two or more serious or very serious offenses and crimes in just one year. Especially for driving with excessive speed, recklessly, using the mobile phone or under the influence of alcohol and drugs. This is revealed by a study carried out by the Fundación Línea Directa that indicates that, on average in the last decade, the DGT detected 45,000 repeat drivers every year.

However, and as Francisco Valencia, director of the foundation, points out, "these data are only the tip of the iceberg" since up to 55% of Spanish drivers (15 million) admit to reoffending high-risk driving behavior, according to a survey carried out throughout Spain during the month of June, in which 1,700 motorists were interviewed.

Serious or very serious offenses

The results of the same also reveal that about 12 million drivers (43%) admit to driving regularly with speeds that exceed the legal limits and 220,000 of them do so at 200 km / h or more on the highway; 3.7 million (14%) use the mobile at the wheel repeatedly and 2.8 million (10%), who get behind the wheel under the influence of alcohol.

In 2018, more than 1,400 people died in traffic accidents and almost 5,200 were seriously injured as a result of offenses such as those committed by road repeat offenders. In addition, the publication of this study occurs when Traffic has warned of the rebound in claims that has occurred since June 21, the end of the state of alarm. Since then, the number of deaths in road accidents has increased by 9%, raising fears that the number of deaths in accidents will increase this summer. A situation that the Línea Directa Foundation already warned about months ago and that Valencia has defined this morning "as the perfect storm."

According to Fundación Línea Directa, the profile of the road repeat offender is a man, middle-aged, with more than 10 years of driving license and mostly punished for speeding. In addition, the vast majority of them demonstrate an enormous ignorance of the rules, such as what are the speed limits from which crime is committed; the maximum permitted blood alcohol levels; that it is a crime to refuse to pass this test or the drug test and they do not know what to do if they lose their driving license.

One in three convictions, for traffic offenses

In this sense, almost 273,000 people lost their driving license in the last decade when they exhausted their points for the commission of road infractions. Since the introduction of the points permit in 2006, more than 18,400 drivers have lost it two and three times.

In addition to the loss of the card, traffic offenses can lead to jail: 952 people are currently in prison for committing crimes against Road Safety. This, despite the fact that one in 3 crimes committed in Spain is against Road Safety. In 2018, more than 89,000 convictions of this type were issued, 63% for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Castilla y León, Asturias and the Valencian Community are the autonomous communities where their drivers recidivism are the most recognized, with rates higher than 61%, while Andalusia, Murcia and the Balearic Islands are the regions with the fewest road recidivists.

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