This was the question many people will from now because Congress passed a law toughening penalties for traffic offenses. In a few weeks to be at the Senate and be ready before winter.
The measures will be carried out force drivers to be more careful if they infringe the wheel. Drunk driving or going to a speed entail excessive prison sentences as long as the offender causes an accident, but so you only need to perform work for the good of the community or a fine.
criticism to this amendment to the Penal Code are the Popular Party voted against for being "excessive yy too hasty, as PNV and IU, both abstained. The criticisms of these three games are based on new sentences. For IU should overrule such penalties when " the offender drunk or too fast will not cause any accident."
Moreover, popular group defended the change in the alcohol limit by increasing it to 1.5 grams.
From my point of view, citizens should have greater awareness about the problem. People do not see a serious risk to go drunk driving or driving too fast, like going without a belt or skip a traffic light. DGT campaigns absolutely no good at all because we have become accustomed to them. Trafficking victims appear to be a scourge that is below other as victims of abuse or terrorism.
radars, the constant controls the national police and Civil Guard and the neglect of lospolíticos on the subject have made last year, without going any further, 4,104 people die . In fact, the English when asked about traffic accidents, they are not often show very concerned because they consider it "minor."
Now the debate moves to the policy, and indirectly to the polls. For a political party can be a step back this reform, others simply unnecessary or inappropriate. We tend to believe that he who kills with a firearm is more culpable than who goes to a car with a few glasses of "more" and travels in a reckless manner endangering the lives of others.
A mother weeping for her son, is alcual crossed his death because of a "madman at the wheel", is less important than a mother devastated by the murder of his daughter.
People are forgetting that the car is dangerous, simply, " a killing machine" . I hope the new law is not subject to confrontation between the citizens because that would be a bad signal no public awareness about the problem of accidents tráficoa. But we have to discuss our politicians, who by scratching a few thousand votes, do not know what, or whom to criticize.
walk Prisons full of rapists, murderers, pedophiles, etc ... Will we allow drivers join them? Hopefully not. And now, to try to tread less throttle.
by Dani.
Free Opinion: Drivers should go to jail for traffic law enforcement?
