Within the calendar of special monitoring and control campaigns for the 2015 year of the DGT, from the 1 to the 7 of June, the section of motorcyclists, incidents team and reports of the Local Police of Dénia have carried out the special campaign of monitoring and control of alcohol and drugs in driving.
The breathalyser tests to 87 drivers, which 5 tested positive with more than 0,25 mg / l alcohol in exhaled air and one was arrested by overcoming 0,60 mg / l were made, which is an offense under the Penal Code . A 10 drivers were also performed controls to detect drug use.
The aim of the campaign is to reduce the accident rate, since alcohol is concurrent or triggering factor in a third of fatal accidents. His presence on driving, depending on the rate, multiplied between 2 and 15 the risk of an accident, although it has detected a change in behavior of citizenship that has lowered the percentage of positive preventive alcohol tests of a 5 2001% in 1,7 to 2013% in.
Besides alcohol, almost 11% of drivers drive after consuming any substance (drug abuse) that may affect the ability to drive safely. Cannabis and cocaine are the two substances used most frequently detected in controls.
