The work of the DGT is not only about ensuring compliance with the highway code and imposing fines or loss of points to drivers who persist in breaking the rules and may endanger the lives and safety of others . Among the most important objectives, it is clear that we want to establish guidelines and carry out activities that will be useful in preventing and reduce road accidentsas is the case when driving at night.
On the other hand, the DGT now has as an integral part of its policy the search for traffic rules that will be approved and which are not in conflict and are harmonious with other EU countries.
Therefore, when changes are introduced, efforts will be made to ensure that all member countries can integrate them into your regulations.
One of the changes under discussion
Among the changes in the coming years is the ban on some drivers driving late at night, where it has been proven that during this period road accidents have increased.
The truth is that up to twenty percent of drivers may have recently obtained a driver’s license. We are therefore talking about young people between 18 and 21 years old, or new ones, whatever their age.
Driving ban between midnight and six a.m.
Statistics and common sense tell us that nighttime is the time of day when there are the most dangers for driving. It is a series of elements that, when added together, can ultimately lead to an accident.
Some of them are the accumulating fatigue on the part of the driver, the lower visibility, the greater number of drivers and also people on public roads under the influence of alcohol and drugs, as well as drowsiness that appears regularly. natural between three and five in the morning.
If this series of factors is added to the lack of experience of new drivers, the chances of something going wrong are greater.
The DGT has decided to take decisions
A panorama which leads the General Directorate of Traffic to evaluate the ban on new drivers who drive between noon in the evening and six in the morning.
We are talking about a measure that will end up significantly affecting drivers who have two or three years after obtaining the licensebecause it is believed that they do not have enough experience in driving at night and statistics say that in this age group there are more accidents than at night.
This won’t just concern young drivers
The young driver is not the only one affected by the ban, which can include older drivers and those who suffer from health problems affecting their concentration or ability to drive at night.
A measure for all of Europe, which has not been approved
Doubts are over whether the ban will ultimately be approved. It’s not entirely clear when we talk about how long it takes to classify a driver as a new driver. Should we wait a few or three years after obtaining the permit?
One might think that this is a discriminatory measuresince there are a series of precedents in the highway code, such as the ban on driving cars weighing more than 3,500 kilos for those who have had a B license for less than two years.
The General Directorate of Traffic wants this to be a regulation applicable throughout the EU, like others that are currently under discussion, such as the digital driving license and unique in the entire old continent, with which the current physical format will go down in history.
The fact is that, as we see, it is really a standard under debate and which has not yet been approved in our country.
Certain measures must be taken
What is clear is that, one way or another, decisions need to be made in this regard reduce the number of accidents which occur at night. We will therefore await the decisions that the administrations take in this regard.
