The DGT warning of a troubled weekend

EFE / MADRID The Directorate General of Traffic ( DGT) has today launched , from three in the afternoon, a special device to a weekend which provide nearly five million trips and can be particularly contentious in the road.

The match this weekend with festivities that will celebrate many populations and with the beginning or end of the holidays of many drivers, is expected to increase in journeys that are performed on summer weekends .

Therefore, traffic has asked drivers to step up their attention, especially the 15th, that was killing more people on the road last year , 18, and did so in a weekend that killed A total of 31 lives .

In this situation, the director of the DGT , Pere Navarro , told Efe, urged caution for drivers who will start or back from vacation on Sunday.

In particular, it asked the eight motorcyclists were killed last weekend, " because " they know they need an extra care , especially on secondary roads .

" If you go very strong on the curve or you go off the curve or invade the opposite lane on exit may visit someone who has nothing to do and causing the accident, " Navarro stressed .

Today's operation begins this afternoon and end at zero hour on Monday but will be extended until midnight of that day in the regions of Andalusia, Aragon and Asturias, as it is festive.

The increased movement of vehicles are expected at the outputs of large cities to coastal tourist areas and populations with the celebration of feasts, and concentrate particularly on roads in Madrid , Barcelona , Castilla -La Mancha , Valencia , Murcia and Andalusia.

4.9 million are expected in car travel , many short-haul and most of them to move to places where festivities are held .

And as is likely to increase alcohol consumption due to the holidays , traffic increase alcohol controls .

The DGT stresses prudence and asking your message advising that alcohol is incompatible with driving and that the only safe rate is 'zero'.

Further requests that, if traveling in groups, at least one person giving the undertaking to take responsibility for driving without having consumed alcohol .