DGT campaign for the Easter holidays
The General Directorate of Traffic has presented this week the new awareness campaign to avoid traffic accidents, making it coincide with Holy Week, a period in which both long-distance and short-distance trips increase in the ten days that the special device lasts.
In Easter last year, 190 people suffered traffic accidents with a balance of 31 dead and 159 injured.
Starting from this idea, the DGT has created the "Vacation Top" in which it ironically proposes an idea that would lead to the 3 most popular destinations where any driver who does not respect traffic rules can end up. In this way, speeding, a last drink of alcohol or answering a text message can lead to those three places where no one thinks they will end up when they start their vacation: a hospital, a prison or the cemetery.
It is expected that these days there will be 15.5 million long-distance trips, 7.4% more than those that occurred during last year's holidays, between 3:00 p.m. on Friday the 12th and 12:00 a.m. on Monday, April 22.
This traffic operation, one of the most conflictive of the year, due to the multitude of trips that occur in a short space of time, with similar origins and destinations and carried out on the same days and times, will take place in two phases, which coincide with the days with the highest number of trips and in which almost 90% of the movements are concentrated. expected.
The most important phase by volume of vehicle movements along the entire road network, will begin on Wednesday, April 17, except in the communities of Valencia and Catalonia, which will begin the next day and end at midnight on Monday, April 22 with the return operation, which will take place from Saturday afternoon and will continue throughout Easter Sunday and Monday, a holiday in several autonomous communities.
Drive carefully
Fraternidad-Muprespa in its desire to innovate and help its associates in improving their accident rate, it has been using the latest technology available in this matter with the realization of our Road Safety Workshops with virtual reality immersive that are taught by our technicians at the national level as an awareness tool for the prevention of traffic accidents.
The objective is for workers to live real experiences in safe environments to achieve a change in attitude. This is a pioneering project at the national level, since there are no applications developed in virtual reality that allow real first-person driving experiences, with exposure to different risk factors (alcohol, drugs, drowsiness, weather conditions or distractions).
