The Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) have published the location details of speed cameras, which will be monitoring vehicles during their summer road safety campaign.
The Spanish traffic department have identified 1,500 sections of intercity roads which are considered particularly dangerous. The criteria for identifying where to place the mobile radars is as a result of analysing the number of serious accidents, fatalities or injuries that have required hospitalization, the general number of accidents and the average velocity in these black spots.
The locations have been made public so that drivers can use caution and adhere to the speed limits in these areas. The speed at which a vehicle is travelling determines the severity of impact in a road accidents, particularly here with our volcanic landscape. The higher the speed in a collision, the worse the injury, or even death for the accident victims.
For the island of Lanzarote the following roads will have increased surveillance read more »