A cyclist in Elche (Alicante) had his bike confiscated this week, after a Local Police patrol observed the cyclist riding through a red traffic light. The officers observed the infraction on Tuesday in the city centre and proceeded to process Read Full Article...
Welcome to the latest edition of RoadWatch eMagazine. You can read the eMagazine FOR FREE at the end of this introduction post, or just scroll to the bottom if you prefer to skip this part. You can also purchase and Read Full Article...
This Sunday, Torrevieja (Alicante) will play host to an exhibition by the Guardia Civil, where you will be ale to meet some of the officers who work in the area, and explore some of the vehicles and equipment used in Read Full Article...
“Alcohol, cannabis and cocaine, the drugs that most affect driving” Ignacio Bayón is the President of the Fundación de Ayuda contra la Drogadicción (FAD), and well equipped to speak about the dangers of drugs and addiction. In an interview with Read Full Article...
During the May holiday traffic operation, the DGT set about testing another vigilance device, one small enough to fit in a briefcase, but powerful enough to monitor a larger stretch of road that ground patrols ever could, their very own Read Full Article...
The Director General of Traffic, Gregorio Serrano,has announced plans to research adding unmarked motorbikes to the Guardia Civil’s fleet of vehicles. The traffic department of the Guardia Civil already use unmarked cars on some speed monitoring campaigns, and during other Read Full Article...
One of the latest additions to the Guardia Civil´s road safety toolkit has been the portable drug testing kits. Like the latest breathalysers and speed cameras, the kits are small enough to be carried in the panniers of motorbikes, as Read Full Article...
In a pioneering model of road traffic policing across Europe, the Guardia Civil now operates the first vehicles under the banner name of the “Integrated Patrol”. The Integrated Patrol is a new surveillance model which sees motorbikes equipped with all Read Full Article...
There´s no escaping it, we are all getting older. No matter what our current physical or mental age might be, there will come a time when our abilities start to deteriorate, often unnoticed, and we need to take steps to Read Full Article...
As of the end of March, 2018, all new cars and vans must have the eCall automatic emergency call system installed. The calls from the system is free and has coverage throughout Europe. The system is activated automatically when the Read Full Article...
Speed, whether excessive (above established limits) or inappropriate (within limits but not adjusted to the conditions of the road, vehicle or driver) is a problem for road safety in many countries as established by the Organization for Cooperation and Development Read Full Article...
A report conducted by Fundación Linea Directa, in collaboration with the University Institute for Traffic Research and Road Safety (INTRAS), has analysed, in depth, 445,000 road traffic incidents with victims between 2011 and 2015, in which 750,000 drivers were involved Read Full Article...
