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The Local Police of Cartagena continues with the commitment for Road Safety and participates, one more year, in the EDWARD International Project, which is scheduled to coincide with the European Day without victims on the roads.
Therefore, this Wednesday, September 19, have established an informative point, in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, aimed at awareness and dissemination of information, which this time has been focused on pedestrians, which has made 48 tests of Breathalyzer to citizen volunteers.
The European Police Network TIPSOL organizes every year, in collaboration with the Directorate General of Traffic, a road safety campaign known as EDWARD project - by the acronym in English of European Day Without A Road Death - which aims to promote awareness in the European Day without fatal road accidents.
Within the same device, local police officers have set up an information booth in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, where they have also made a total of 48 tests of alcohol detection to all those pedestrians, of all nationalities, who have voluntarily submitted to them.
At the same time they were informed of the risks of driving low effects of alcohol and the obligations they have as pedestrians.
"And it is that, those pedestrians who are involved in a traffic accident must also undergo compulsory blood alcohol control," said Víctor Navarro, agent of the Local Police of Cartagena.
On the other hand, Navarro noted that "it is very important that drivers are aware of this day and above all that driving and respecting the rules of the road are on the road map of all Cartagena."
In the same way, the Local Police agent, Víctor Navarro, has given an account of the figures of fatalities in urban roads, which in 2018 has been 0 victims.
However, in 2017 there were 4 fatalities to be mourned in the urban roads of the municipality.
The main objective of the campaign, which is celebrated for the third consecutive year, is to inform about the importance of road safety and that in the long term, a significant change in reducing the number of victims and injured on the roads of the municipality and of all the world.
More than 30 countries belong to TIPSOL, including Spain, where the Local Police of Cartagena collaborates with this initiative in favor of Road Safety.
This project aims to ensure that no one dies on public roads in traffic accidents and uses the mechanisms that favor the awareness of drivers and road users.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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