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Invading circulated at high speed and invading both lanes of the highway
The driver voluntarily alter the driving status and mandatory rest
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia, within the special services developed for monitoring road safety on the occasion of the Special Operation Traffic 'Navidad 2014-2015', established by the General Directorate of Traffic, has intercepted the driver an articulated vehicle of 40 tonnes circulating irregularly, having manipulated the tachograph vehicle.
The morning of last Wednesday, December 31, several drivers alerted the Guardia that a large tonnage vehicle was driving erratically along the A-7 from Alicante and Murcia direction.
Apparently the vehicle traveling at high speed and simultaneously invaded both lanes of the road, so a set device policemen Traffic Sector Murcia, in close collaboration with components Detachment Traffic Orihuela (Alicante) was established, culminating in the interception of the vehicle at kilometer 555 of the highway, at the height of the municipality of Santomera, which was removed from the driveway and parked in a service area to normalize vehicular traffic.
Identified its driver, a 55 year-old resident of El Ejido (Almería), was subjected to mandatory breath tests in which, although the presence of alcohol is detected, the rate obtained was lower than the maximum allowed, which in the case of professional drivers is 0.15 mg / liter.
Analyzed the disco-diagram tachograph vehicle, where the set of driver activity is logged and particularly the speed at which it circulates, distance and driving times and rest, it was found that it had started its journey in a French town some 800 kilometers but only appeared in the disco-I register a distance of 400 kilometers, which made the civil guards suspect a possible manipulation of the tachograph.
Although the driver claimed that possibly there had been a sudden fault in the tachograph, amid signs of a possible manipulation, the Meritorious decided, in collaboration with the competent body, Directorate General for Transport, Coasts & Ports of the Autonomous Community, move the vehicle to an authorized submit to a mandatory technical inspection of tachographs in order to verify this circumstance workshop.
Timely inspection performed by an authorized service found that the tachograph vehicle had been manipulated voluntarily by installing a sophisticated electronic device that allowed his driver off at will the operation of this device while driving to this so marked that was in rest period, also verifying that had placed a non-approved and installed by an unauthorized service precincts.
With this manipulation, the driver alter at will the driving status and mandatory rest required for vehicles used for the carriage of goods and passengers, making journeys much higher than the permitted work and to their own devices exceeding the posted speed limits, with the consequent risk to road safety requires driving such vehicles when their drivers, after days of marathon and uncontrolled work, exhaustion, may lose control of the truck and cause accidents with serious results.
Thanks to the cooperation of citizens and the intervention of the Civil Guard has safeguarded the physical safety of road users, preventing it had been a traffic accident unpredictable outcome, the danger that involves the use of a vehicle large tonnage under these conditions.
On these facts, the driver, who was driving unloaded from the French town of Béziers to El Ejido (Almería), was reported to the provincial traffic, which carries a financial penalty of 500 euros and the decrease 6 points driving license, and to the Directorate General for Transport, Coasts and Ports of the Region of Murcia, which implies a fine of 4,100 euros.
The vehicle was immobilized until it was installed a new tachograph unit in the same authorized service that certified manipulation, having been removed and intervened newsletters, seals, mounting plates and disc-diagram altered tachograph, which have been delivered to the competent body of the Autonomous Community, for research purposes and processing the corresponding disciplinary procedures.
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia wants attention of citizens, without hesitation, to advise the phone 062 when faced with situations of irregular conduct, in order to be able to take appropriate enforcement measures to ensure that these vehicles are intercepted and checked if your drivers comply with current legislation and are in the right conditions to travel with security guarantees, thus avoiding the possible production of accidents and unfortunate consequences that may result.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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