Overview
- Traffic officers from the Guardia Civil and participating municipal police are carrying out roadside and administrative checks coordinated by the DGT throughout this week.
- Inspections cover permits and mandatory authorizations, unlimited civil-liability insurance, vehicle safety equipment and condition, driver qualifications and rest times, and controls for speed, alcohol, drugs and mobile phone use.
- Galicia’s network comprises about 3,800 routes serving more than 90,000 students with roughly 7,000 daily services, a scale officials cite to justify intensified oversight.
- Early local results include Palencia, where 16 vehicles were checked on day one and 10 infractions were detected, such as an expired professional certificate, a blocked emergency door and an out-of-date fire extinguisher.
- Authorities point to previous results to sustain the effort, noting 1,789 denunciations from 6,621 vehicles inspected nationwide in January and 488 sanctions in the last Galicia campaign, largely for missing authorizations and inadequate insurance.