The DGT enables a search engine to locate vehicles affected by DANA

Whether your vehicle appears on the list or not, the owners must 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 owners 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 request temporary leave through a section enabled on the DGT website. This procedure can be done free of charge and by filling out a simple form, while the compensation files for damage to the vehicle or its repair are managed.

The cancellation can be requested by calling 060, in 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 will have an entry in the vehicle registry as “affected by DANA” both to avoid putting it into circulation without first passing the vehicle’s technical inspection, and to avoid possible fraud on the second-hand market.

120,000 vehicles

The estimates made The total number of vehicles affected by DANA is estimated at 120,000. Predictably, 98% of these will have to be scrapped and, consequently, permanently decommissioned. For this reason, 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, in coordination with DGT, the Ministry of Industry and the Spanish Association of Scrapping and Recycling of the Automobile (AEDRA), an agile process of withdrawal and destruction that allows us to contribute to recovering normality in the area.

In cases where, after having been temporarily discharged, they can be taken to a workshop for recovery, in agreement with the insurer and the Consortium, an extraordinary technical inspection of the vehicle must be passed and subsequently request registration in the vehicle registry, also free of charge.

On the contrary, in the event that the owner, once the vehicle has been located and in view of the damage, 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. Once the information on the definitive deregistration of the vehicles is recorded in the DGT Vehicle Registry, it will be provided to the town councils to update their fleet and manage the road tax.

Other procedures

In addition to the temporary or permanent withdrawal, a duplicate driving license may be requested due to the loss or destruction of the driving license. This will be sent to the interested party, to the existing address in the General Registry of Drivers that appears in the DGT or to the Provincial Traffic Headquarters. Next week too a duplicate of the circulation permit may be requested and the technical data sheet of the vehicle in digital format.