A driver who recorded the images with a fixed camera located on his dashboard explains surprised what happened this Sunday near the exit of the highway towards Las Torres de Cotillas
“I saw him coming from behind at full speed, but I never thought he would do what he did.” José Luis still recounts, surprised, what he experienced when he was driving along the A-7 towards Lorca, at the height of the Las Torres de Cotillas exit. «A car at more than 180 kilometers per hour overtaking the caravan in front on the shoulder. As soon as I got out of the car I verified that I had recorded it with the camera that I always carry on the dashboard, ”he assures THE TRUTH.
Around 11:30 a.m. this Saturday, when he was driving on the A-7, José Luis, who was overtaking a motorhome in the left lane, saw in the rear-view mirror how a vehicle was approaching at high speed. “At first I thought it would stop suddenly, but no.” The car not only did not brake, but overtook the motorhome on the right, due to the small gap remaining between the aforementioned vehicle and the guardrail, since the hard shoulder in this area is narrow.
“He didn’t even think about stopping,” criticizes José Luis, who points out that all the drivers who experienced the reckless maneuver were left “with shock in their bodies: we all braked a little just as that car overtook us, we couldn’t expect that.”
In addition, he points out that kilometers later he met the same driver again, who had no longer been able to overtake a convoy of trucks and had to wait his turn to speed up.
The driver who owned the camera that recorded the images informed the Civil Guard of what had happened so that they could take the appropriate measures: “People like that are a danger on the road.”
Fines for reckless or negligent driving can lead to an administrative penalty of 500 euros and the withdrawal of 6 points from the driving license. However, this penalty can be increased if it is shown that such behavior poses a “serious, real, specific and effective danger to the life or integrity of third parties”, as contemplated in article 360 of the Penal Code. In that case, it could be processed as a crime against traffic safety, which would cause the loss of all the points of the driving license and possible prison sentences of between six months and two years in prison, in addition to the prohibition of driving motor vehicles. engine between one and six years.
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