DGT strike denies 'pens fallen' cause more deaths on roads

The Director General of Traffic, Pere Navarro, yesterday dismissed claims that the figures recorded last weekend, the most tragic in so far this year, due to the strike of 'pens fallen' agents of the Association of Civil Guard. According to the report of the Directorate General of Traffic, the weekend occurred 24 accidents, which killed 26 people and wounded 30 others.

Pere Navarro said the data "do not mean a rebound" of the accident, because "there weekends are good and bad "and insisted that the period is a period" too short to draw conclusions. The head of the DGT emphasized that the fines "are unfortunately necessary for the preventive and deterrent effect of sanctions" and insisted that "supervision and control over, more fines, fewer violations and fewer accidents."

Therefore, if the protest said that agents of the Association of Traffic stretches "could have an impact on accidents." He said that "civil guards are not paid according to the fines that put" that "charge the same each month" and that the scale of assessment of the agents used to know the average activity for which they are engaged. For its part, from the Unified Association of Civil Guard Navarro was asked why in Catalonia, where traffic is the responsibility of the Government and the Autonomous Police, fatalities "have increased this month by 53%. Will the 'Moss on strike? ". According to the union, "it is easier to blame the civil guards who accept their responsibilities."