The General Directorate of Traffic reveals what you should do if you find this symbol on the road
The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) has shared on its social networks the meaning of this orange signage that more than one is unaware of. It is a rectangular panel with an orange background with the Radar Controlled Speed pictogram, warning of the proximity of dangerous road sections where speed is controlled.
This signal has raised many doubts among citizens, who, according to the DGT, have gone to the provincial headquarters to ask about its meaning. On the sign you can see a rectangular panel in which several vehicles appear and a pictogram of a propagating wave, and below it some arrows and a figure in kilometers.
These panels are located under different signs (general speed limit, no overtaking, etc.) in 300 sections of conventional roads identified as the most dangerous. In these sections, the DGT has detected increases in accidents and mortality associated with speeding, during the period 2010-2014. This panel indicates that it is a section (hence the figure in kilometers) where the Civil Guard Traffic Group will be able to install preventive mobile controls for speed control, something that was already being done, but did not have a signal to do so. will warn
In this way, in these sections surveillance will be intensified through mobile speed controls carried out by agents of the Civil Guard Traffic Group. The new panel warns of the presence of these preventive controls for speeding and indicates the length of the section of road affected.
8,700 kilometers of dangerous sections
The mobile radars will focus on the so-called Invive sections and they are those in which the DGT has detected between 2010 and 2014 high figures of speeding and, also, of accidents and mortality. In figures, it is about 300 sections of 8,707 kilometers of roads distributed throughout the national territory (except the Basque Country, Catalonia and the Canary Islands). The autonomous communities with the most Invive sections are Castilla y León with 82, Castilla-La Mancha, with 55, and Andalucía, with 45; and the least, Cantabria and Navarra with a single section each.
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