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Zigzag driving an articulated heavy truck from a warehouse
It caused a traffic accident with damage to colliding with another truck
In breath tests yielded a score of 1.05 and 1.12 mg / l, when the maximum is 0.15 mg./l
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia has stopped the driver of an articulated vehicle of 40 tonnes, which had caused a traffic accident in Jumilla, when he collided with another truck, which exceeded seven times the maximum rate of alcohol for professional drivers .
The afternoon of Tuesday, March 1, a patrol of the Civil Guard Traffic, specializing in inspecting transport, received a notice to attend a traffic accident occurred in the town of Jumilla, at kilometer 62 the N-344 road linking the towns Sewer and Fuente la Higuera.
The civil guards, arriving at the scene of the accident, found that two vehicles, a rigid truck and an articulated Irish registration vehicle, which had suffered a collision that produced materials both damage were involved in it, not existing injuries occupants.
Of the first investigations carried out by the Civil Guard is clear that foreign vehicle circulating sense Sewell, had collided with another truck, circulating meaning to Fuente la Higuera, and had forced off the road, continuing, however the first march without stopping.
A third vehicle went abroad vehicle until it finally got to stop.
Identified those involved in the accident, officials appreciated that the driver of the articulated vehicle of Irish registration a male, aged 36 and Polish showed clear signs of influence of alcohol, so he was subjected to mandatory breath tests in which yielded a positive result of 1.05 and 1.12 milligrams of alcohol per liter of exhaled air, in separate regulatory tests that were performed, beating more than seven times the maximum allowable rate, which in the case of professional drivers, as in this case, it is 0.15 mg / liter.
For this reason, the police arrested the driver of the articulated vehicle on suspicion of felony driving under the influence of alcohol, it greatly exceeded the prescribed fee, being made available to the Court of Instruction No. 2 of Jumilla (Murcia) , for holding the corresponding speedy trial.
During the arrest, agents verified that the now arrested was totally disoriented because of alcohol poisoning, also found inside the cab several empty wine bottles.
Apparently, the detainee was driving along the N-344 road towards Alcantarilla after unloading in a warehouse in Jumilla.
Given the high rate of alcohol, the vehicle was immobilized in a service area of ​​the N-344, near the town of Jumilla, and the driver was taken to the dungeons of the 5th Zone of the Civil Guard of Murcia, where he was admitted to making available to the judicial authority, the morning the next day.
The offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, with over 0.60 milligrams / liter rates, is enshrined in Article 379 of the Penal Code and can be punished with imprisonment alternately 3 to 6 months, a fine of 6 to 12 months, or work on behalf of the community of 31 to 90 days and, in any case, with deprivation of the right to drive motor vehicles and mopeds by more than 1 time and up to 4 years.
The Civil Guard reiterates its message to those drivers who recklessly and reckless, despite campaigns and warnings of the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT), driving after drinking or taking drugs, noting that, given the proximity of the Easter and the considerable increase in movements involved both long journey to the vacation spots as especially short distance derived from leisure activities and festive, alcohol tests and drugs will be intensified, at any time of day or night, in order to raise public awareness of the incompatibility of these substances with driving vehicles to ensure road safety on our roads.
Moreover, the Civil Guard in the region of Murcia, wants to draw attention of citizens, without hesitation, to alert you to phone 062 when they encounter situations or irregular maneuvers that lead to think that drivers do under the influence of drugs or alcohol, in order to be able to take appropriate measures to make these vehicles intercepted and checked whether their drivers are in the right conditions to travel with security guarantees, avoiding, as in this case, the possible production policing measures accidents and unfortunate consequences that may result.
On February 12, 2016 he was also arrested the driver of a foreign articulated vehicle, in this case of Hungarian nationality, traveling on the same road, at the height of Yecla, for driving under the influence of alcohol, then exceeding eight times the maximum allowable rate.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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