People who still don’t know the location of your vehicle After passing the DANA, they will be able to locate it using an innovative application.
The vice-president and advisor for social services, equality and housing, Susana Camareroannounced that the Generalitat Valenciana has developed a platform to facilitate the location and registration of damaged vehicles.
It is “a tool which allows citizens to have information on the location and condition of vehicles, and which is available on the portal SomSolidarity“, communicated the spokesperson for the Consell at a press conference.
Concerning the new device which is called Vehicle locationthe social services manager clarified that this facilitates coordination with the Insurance Compensation Consortium expedite the necessary procedures regarding the assessment and resolution of compensation.
For its development, the Generalitat has benefited from the collaboration of the Provincial Delegation of Valencia, the Civil Guard, the Insurance Compensation Consortium and the General Directorate of Traffic.
In response to the immediate need to remedy the situation of vehicles damaged by floods, the spokesperson for the Consell explained that the Generalitat has activated an urgent withdrawal plan in the 60 areas where they are located due to the health and safety risks in affected populations.
“Although the competence in this matter lies with the central government, which must declare these vehicles as municipal waste for subsequent transport, the delay in state regulation has led the Generalitat to act urgently by preparing a future decree that will establish the evacuation of around 120,000 cars that were deposited in municipal fields,” Camarero said.
Cars piled up after the passage of the DANA, archive image. Efe / Bienne Aliño
Checking license plates
This Monday precisely, the removal of the 120,000 damaged vehicles accumulated in the 60 fields of the province began, as reported by the Emergency Coordination Center (CCE).
These vehicles will be transferred to a first reception point located in the Career of Picassent (Valencia), where a first paved area was set up for this first reception.
Thanks to this system, activated by the Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, the transfer of vehicles to safe locations is guaranteed, as well as adequate custody and traceability, which allows the procedures to be carried out necessary for the expertise.
In this regard, the Director General of Forest Fire Prevention, Rosa Tourisdeclared after the Cecopi meeting that this Sunday it had been agreed send the circular to the councils.
Thus, he indicated that since the Generalitat the environmental agents have carried out a inventory of vehicles collected at each point.
“With the start of transfers, a number plate inspection of all vehicles so that the cars placed on the lot have their traceability assured and thus protect the rights of the owners in each case,” he said.
This information will be transmitted periodically to the General Directorate of Information and Communication Technologies (DGTIC). In this way, the location data of these license plates can be introduced into the application developed by the Generalitat so that interested citizens can consult it, he recalled.
“This measure is progress towards the approval of the Royal Decree-Law that the Spanish Government is committed to approving to adopt greater agility in the procedures of expertise and definitive deregistration of vehicles for their final treatment in facilities authorized,” he added.
Through this circular, local police and municipalities can inform residents and vehicle owners how the removal of cars will be carried out.
