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From 3:00 pm today until midnight next Monday, the DGT will carry out the last special surveillance operation this summer. Two months that could close with the lowest death toll since there are statistics (a record held in the summer of 2019), although with very small differences.

Above all, if the decrease in the number of trips is taken into account. The DGT did not make forecasts at the beginning of the summer and has not given aggregated figures afterwards. Only some partial, such as the decrease in travel last week: 11.8% less on weekdays and 15% on weekends.

On the other hand, in July there were 114 deaths (only three less than in that month of 2019). And until the 23rd of this month, the accumulated data was 180 (3.7% less). Since then and in order not to burst the press conference with the balance of the summer that Interior will give, Traffic has stopped publishing daily figures. Which does not hide them, since until Wednesday 26 this newspaper has counted another 12 deaths. And that leaves the accumulated of July and August with 23 fewer victims, when there are five days ahead.

Persecution in Madrid: three dead

They will be days with many millions of trips, monitored by an arsenal of means that the DGT remembers over and over again: 1,234 radars between fixed, section and mobile (here is the list with its location), 216 control cameras of the mobile and the belt, 11 drones (three with the capacity to fine), 12 helicopters and 15 camouflaged vans.

Although all that is of little use in the face of behaviors such as those you can see in the video that accompanies this news. Or the chase between two vehicles that ended with three deaths in Mostoles at dawn last Monday; the girl killed yesterday in a collision and who was traveling without a seat belt; or the misfortune that occurred in Madrid, where a minor who was parking her father's car ran over her, causing her death.

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