Traffic has enabled a search engine on its website to locate vehicles affected by DANA on the roads. These are the steps to follow.
The General Directorate of Traffic just enable on your websitein the section created for extraordinary procedures, a search engine in which power locate the place where the vehicles affected by DANA are located on different roads.
Right now, this list only has the information on the vehicles that were traveling on an interurban road at the time of the DANA and that have been removed and deposited in different warehouses by agents of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard.
In these 2,500 vehiclesin addition to those who already have a claim file open with the Insurance Compensation Consortium (in total about 104,000), Traffic is proceeding to give a temporary suspension ex officio with the objective of benefiting the owner of the vehicle affected and out of circulation. In this administrative situation, certain obligations such as the payment of road tax are suspended on January 1, 2025 or be up to date with the Technical Vehicle Inspection.
You must contact the Consortium
The DGT warns that whether the vehicle appears on the list or not, holders should contact the Insurance Compensation Consortium to be able to start the claim file and be able to remove it from the place where it is located or order its transfer to one of the 84 authorized treatment centers in the region.
The rest of the users whose vehicles have been affected by DANA and have not yet been identified by the Insurance Compensation Consortium or the corresponding authorities of the Valencian Community, can also request, free of charge and by filling out a form, temporary withdrawal from through a section enabled on the DGT website while the compensation files for damage to the vehicle or its repair are managed.
This procedure can also be carried out by calling 060in person at the Provincial Traffic Headquarters of Valencia and Alzira or through the administrative managers, regular collaborators of the Administration in these administrative procedures.
All affected vehicles, according to Traffic, will have a notation in the vehicle registry as “affected by DANA” both to prevent them from being put into circulation without previously passing the ITV, and to avoid possible fraud in the second-hand market.
98% of cars will be scrapped
The estimates The number of vehicles affected by DANA is estimated at 120,000of which around 98% will have to be scrapped and, therefore, permanently discharged. Therefore, in anticipation of the high number of vehicles that may be abandoned in different places in the affected areas, the Insurance Compensation Consortium is designing, together with the DGT, the Ministry of Industry and the Spanish Association of Automobile Scrapping and Recycling (AEDRA), an agile withdrawal and destruction process that allows us to contribute to recovering normality in the area as quickly as possible.
If the car, after being temporarily deregistered, can be taken to a workshop For its recovery, in agreement with the insurer and the Consortium, an extraordinary technical inspection of the vehicle must be passed and then request registration in the vehicle registry, also free of charge.
If, on the other hand, once the vehicle has been located and in view of the damage, the owner decides to remove it from circulation, You must call an Authorized Environmental Treatment Center for its destruction. These centers are the only ones authorized to decontaminate and destroy vehicles in accordance with environmental criteria, as well as to issue the corresponding destruction certificate that they will deliver to the owner of said vehicle.
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