“A misfortune happens any day,” warns a local police officer from Borox, in the Toledo region of La Sagra. He and his companions have been trying for weeks, on occasion together with the Civil Guard, to prevent illegal races from taking place in the industrial estate of this town of about 4,000 inhabitants.
As in the United States, illegal racing in Spain has been popularized by the ‘Fast & Furious’ movie saga. And at the Jesús Menchero García de Borox industrial estate, hundreds of people and vehicles are summoned to participate in them and “bet money”, according to sources consulted.
They are young people between twenty and thirty years old, above all, those who usually make meetings the night from Saturday to Sunday mainly. They communicate through ‘SocialDrive’, the largest community of drivers in Spain, and can stay for about six hours, as happened the second weekend of this month of November. This cinematic and dangerous scenario It has been repeated for more than a year, although it does not happen every weekend.
The Avenida de los Oficios, very long and downhill, becomes a racing track. Vehicles burn tires and line up waiting for their turn. Negligent and reckless drivers flash their high beams to warn people not to cross the road. A person with a handkerchief gives the start and two cars of the same or similar displacement compete at full throttle.. They go from roundabout to roundabout, with passengers leaning out of the windows filming, while other drivers warm up by skidding nearby. The majority are passenger cars, although you can see vans racing. “Imagine that a car punctures and rolls over…”, gives as an example a witness.
Control of the local Borox Police early last Sunday
They come from all over Castilla-La Mancha and the Community of Madrid. The local Police and the Civil Guard know this from the complaints they have made this year.
As “things got out of hand”, on Saturday, November 16, the mayor called the Civil Guard when the gathering was detected. A dozen patrol cars showed up, arriving from various towns in the province, who collaborated with local police officers. With a deployment of about thirty agents, they were able to cut off all access to the industrial estate at dawn. «The people then ran away like rats»the witness describes to ABC, who hopes that these illegal races will be repeated in December, as happened last weekend.
In the early hours of Friday to Saturday, with a concentration of about 140 vehicles, two local police officers made 17 complaints. The next day, four officials carried out a preventive control, which involved narcotic substances, such as cannabis and hashish, early Sunday morning.
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