The Civil Guard intercepts a trucker who exceeded the utmost alcohol fee by greater than 9 instances


It yielded 1.38 and 1.31 milligrams of alcohol per liter of exhaled air, with the utmost being 0.15 mg for skilled drivers. The particular person investigated was driving a large-tonnage articulated automobile on the A-30 motorway. crime in opposition to highway security, for driving a automobile exceeding the regulatory charges

The Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia has intercepted and investigated the driving force of a large-tonnage articulated automobile on the A-30 motorway, within the municipality of Molina de Segura, for driving greater than 9 instances the utmost permitted blood alcohol stage, who has been investigated because the alleged perpetrator of a criminal offense in opposition to highway security.

The occasions happened early within the morning, when a patrol of Motorists from the Traffic Group, which offered highway security surveillance service on the RM-532 (Mula-Cieza) freeway, was alerted by the Operations Center of Traffic (COTA) of the Murcia Traffic Sector {that a} heavy automobile was circulating on the top of Jumilla on the A-33 freeway (A-30 Blanca-A-35 Fuente La Higuera), erratically, zigzagging, altering lanes abruptly and even hitting the steel safety boundaries that delimit the highway, with the ensuing hazard that it represented for himself and different customers.

The civil guards of the Motorists patrol instantly went to the place indicated by the central, they toured the freeway, positioned the automobile – a heavy-duty articulated truck – and verified that it was driving on the Murcia A-30 freeway (Albacete-Cartagena ), close to the Archena junction, the place they managed to get it to a protected place off the freeway platform, by way of the particular indicators (luminous and acoustic) of the official automobile.

When the civil guards recognized the driving force, they detected a robust scent of alcohol, for which motive they underwent the obligatory alcohol consumption detection checks, which yielded a constructive results of 1.38 and 1.31 milligrams of alcohol per liter. of expired air, greater than 9 instances larger than the utmost fee allowed, which within the case {of professional} drivers is 0.15 mg/litre.

Given these circumstances, the driving force of the heavy automobile, which got here from El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona) and was transporting parcels to the Murcia Southeast Logistics Park, was investigated and proceedings had been taken because the alleged perpetrator of a criminal offense in opposition to highway security, for driving a motorized vehicle exceeding the statutory charges for alcoholic drinks.

The particular person being investigated was positioned on the disposal of the Molina de Segura Investigating Court, for the corresponding trial to be held underneath the speedy prosecution process for sure crimes. The automobile was immobilized on the disposal of the judicial authority, till one other licensed driver takes cost of it or the explanations for which it was immobilized disappear.

Crime of driving inebriated

The crime of driving underneath the affect of alcoholic drinks is included in article 379 of the Criminal Code and will be punished alternatively with jail sentences of three to six months, a wonderful of 6 to 12 months, or work for the good thing about the neighborhood of 31 to 90 days and in any case with deprivation of the precise to drive motor autos and mopeds for a interval of greater than 1 and as much as 4 years.

The Civil Guard continues to reiterate its message to these drivers who recklessly and recklessly, regardless of the campaigns and warnings of the General Directorate of Traffic, drive after having drunk alcohol or taken medication, recalling that the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard continues to hold out its particular exercise of monitoring highway security 24 hours a day, particularly in these actions with the very best danger, the place the obligatory alcohol and drug checks will probably be carried out on all drivers who’re denounced by the fee of infractions, involvement in accidents or these through which its consumption is detected in the midst of different surveillance and inspection actions which might be carried out.

These actions have the aim of constructing residents conscious of the incompatibility of those substances with driving, given the discount in reflexes and talents that they suggest for the management of autos, and thus assure highway security on our roads, thus avoiding kind, the manufacturing of site visitors accidents and the intense penalties, which as on this case might have prompted, interesting to the civic consciousness of residents to not get behind the wheel in these situations, particularly by skilled drivers.

On the opposite hand, the Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia needs to attraction to the inhabitants in order that they notify the phone quantity 062 (Civil Guard) or 112 (Emergencies) or on to the patrols in service, once they encounter irregular conditions or Irregular maneuvers that give rise to the idea that drivers achieve this inebriated or medication, so as to have the ability to undertake the suitable police measures in order that these autos are intercepted and verified if their drivers are in satisfactory situations to drive with safety ensures, avoiding the ensuing danger.