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The Civil Guard intercepted the driver of an articulated vehicle of 40 tonnes driving under the influence of drugs (22/04/2016)

RM F-14 (Highway A-30 Torre Pacheco) |

He tested positive for cocaine and cannabis

He was going to charge a company of Torre Pacheco to initiate a transfer to UK

The vehicle was immobilized until he took over a driver enabled

The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia, during yesterday morning and while firing a preventative breathalyser and drugs in Torre Pacheco, intercepted the driver of an articulated vehicle of 40 tonnes driving under the influence of drugs such as cocaine and cannabis, who finally it resulted reported to the Provincial Traffic Headquarters.

The incident occurred during the morning yesterday, April 21, in Torre Pacheco, highway RM F-14, when a patrol motorcycle Detachment Traffic Civil Guard Cartagena, who were carrying out a preventative breathalyser and drugs, requiring the driver of an authorized to undergo the required tests articulated vehicle of 40 t maximum, watched, but gave negative results in the test of alcohol, seemed a strange behavior that led agents to suspect that it could have taken other prohibited substances and incompatible with driving.

Presuming that your male driver, Spanish and 28 had ingested any drugs or other narcotic substance, members of the Civil Guard he underwent mandatory circumstantial evidence of drug detection in saliva, which yielded a positive result for cocaine and cannabis , so it was obtained a second oral fluid sample has been sent to an accredited contrast this first interim result laboratory, according to current regulations.

For this reason, the driver of the articulated vehicle, heading to the town of Torre Pacheco for the purpose of loading lettuce into a trading and distribution of vegetables for transport to the UK, was reported to the Provincial Traffic Murcia, for an infringement of Article 14 of the current Road Safety Act, when driving a vehicle with presence of drugs in the body, a fact that after the last regulatory reform is fined 1,000 euros and the loss of 6 points in their Driver's License.

As a result of these facts, the vehicle was immobilized in accordance with the provisions of the Road Safety Act, given the danger that involves the movement of a vehicle large tonnage under these conditions and the loss of reflexes that ingestion of drugs involved, to that, after traveling there an alternative driver and verify that meet the legal requirements for driving such vehicles and were in appropriate conditions to do so, he could continue his route.

The Civil Guard reiterates its message to drivers who so reckless and foolhardy, despite campaigns and warnings from the General Directorate of Traffic, driving after drinking or taking drugs, remembering that, notwithstanding the systematic implementation of ordinary or special preventive controls, mandatory breath tests and drugs will be submitted to all drivers that are reported by the commission of offenses, involvement in accidents or those where consumption is detected in the course of other surveillance and inspection to be carried out, in order to raise public awareness, especially to drivers of vehicles transporting goods or passengers, the risk increases by its own unique characteristics, the incompatibility of these substances with driving given the loss of reflexes and capabilities to assume control of vehicles, and thus ensure road safety on our roads, avoiding, in this way, the production of road accidents and serious considerations that these entail.

During 2016, the Traffic Civil Guard of Murcia has intercepted three other carriers for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs incompatible with driving:

93,800 kilometer of the N-344 (Sewer-Fuente La Higuera) near Yecla road.

Arrested the driver of an articulated vehicle, of Hungarian nationality, which exceeded eight times the alcohol limit.

79,300 kilometer of the N-344 (Alcantarillla-Fuente La Higuera) near Jumilla road.

Intercepted the driver of an articulated vehicle, of Spanish nationality circulating having used cannabis.

57,000 kilometer of the N-344 (Sewer-Fuente La Higuera) near Jumilla road.

Arrested the driver of an articulated vehicle, a Polish national, who septuplicaba the BAC.

Source: Ministerio del Interior

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