106 deaths on the roads of Spain this Easter
By h.b.
Apr 10, 2007 - 8:36 AM
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The head of the DGT, Pepe Navarro, admitted that something had failed this year
A total of 106 people died on the roads of Spain over the Holy Week break, with the DGT traffic authority announcing the final number this morning.
Last year saw a total of 110 deaths at this time, but the authorities are disappointed that the introduction of the points driving licence is appearing to have an ever decreasing effect on the numbers. The DGT had also announced a whole new range of radar speed traps across the country.
Traffic Chief, Pepe Navarro, admitted this morning that this year’s campaign had failed.
The deaths came in 84 fatal accidents in total between 3pm on the Friday before Holy Week upto midnight last night, and there were also 62 serious injuries and 37 lesser injuries.
Not really surprised by this, was in sevelle on the wednesday before easter and the traffic was mad in the city centre, cars going every direction and police closing off streets for no apparent reason, the roundabout as you head in from madrid side was a disaster, cars flying every direction.
The trouble is that the majority of the population never had a car until Spain joined the EEC. And to get the transport infrastructure up to speed they made it easy to buy a new car with payment stretching over 25 yrs. So Pablo goes out & gets himself a Beemer & the rest you read in the papers as accident stats.( They can’t drive ) period. I remember the manager of FC Barcelona ending up on a slab after creaming his Beemer on an empty motorway. Next day in the papers there were diagrams of the road & the Spanish experts concluded that he wasn’t to blame ,it was the roads fault!!
harry:
The trouble is that the majority of the population never had a car until Spain joined the EEC. And to get the transport infrastructure up to speed they made it easy to buy a new car with payment stretching over 25 yrs.
Wasn´t quite that bad there were more than enough cars about when Spain joined the EEC in 1987 although the average age of a car tended to be al ot older than it is now.
Paying for a car over 25 years ■■? that would mean paying longer for the car than for the flat I think you mean the Plan Prever which was introduced sometime in the 90´s partly at the behest of Brussels which was designed to encourage the Spanish to trade in their old jalopies thereby at the same time not only modernising the average vehicle on the road and helping road safety but also to help cut down on exhaust emissions. The way it worked was (roughly) if your car was past a certain age you got a government subsidised discount on the purchase of a new one, the older the car and the lower the income the higher the discount.
