-U57166881487GMT-1024x512@diario_abc.jpg?w=1920&resize=1920,960&ssl=1 "The supreme condemns Senator Baltar (PP) for driving an official car at more than 200 km/h")
The Criminal Chamber imposes a fine of 1,800 euros and the prohibition of driving motor vehicles for a year
The Supreme Court has condemned the Senator of the PP and former president of the Diputación de Orense, José Manuel Baltar, for a crime against road safety. The Criminal Chamber considered proven that the official car of the provincial institution was driving more than 200 kilometers per hour when it was ‘hunted’ on the A-52 highway.
The sentence imposes, specifically, a fine of 1,800 euros, in addition to a year and a day of deprivation of the right to drive motor vehicles and cyclomotor. The maximum speed allows in that section was 120 km/h.
Both Baltar and their lawyer tried to be insistent that the then provincial president had not exceeded 200 k/h, a speed that marks the qualitative leap between an administrative infraction and a crime. The lawyer said, specifically, that it had been 199 km/h.
However, the Supreme Court considers “without a doubt, in view of the tests practiced”, which on the afternoon of April 23, 2023 Baltar exceeded that speed when it was driving the Volkswagen Passat of the Diputación de Orense in the Benavente sense. A cinemometer installed in the A-52 at the height of the municipality of Asturianos, in the province of Zamora, detected that it circulated at 215 km/h.
Therefore, even applying the 5% margin of error established by state regulations on static cinemometers, the court concludes that the car of the Orensana Diputación with Balt at the wheel “circulated at least 204 km/h”.
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