The Road safety It is a really important issue, because based on it, the lives of thousands of people are involved. Every driver circulating on Spanish roads must have full knowledge of circulation standards which imposes the General Directorate of Traffic, the highest traffic entity in Spain.
Among the most important norms are the General Circulation Regulations and the Traffic Law. In these standards the maximum speeds allowed on the different roads of the Spanish geography are collected.
To prevent drivers from breaching the established limits, speed radars are used Among which are the traditional fixed radars, section radars, trailer radars, Pegasus helicopters, among others. Each has a specific technology that is capable of detecting which drivers are violating safety standards.
The new hiding place of the DGT speed radars
In recent years CWe are seeing a greater number of mobile radars for the ease they have to be transported from one side quickly. In addition, in recent years there are also a greater amount of velolaser radars, a light and difficult type of radar to find.
In one of the last censuses that the DGT made public, he talked about the fact that they existed near 1,300 mobile radarsabout 800 fixed and a hundred more than section, to which we must add the Pegasus helicopters that are 13 but only 10 are in operation.
However, in recent years, Traffic entities have decided to hide these radars to see who breaches the rules. Being small devices, they can be placed in any corner and even behind some traffic signals. They measure just over 40 centimeters and weigh less than 2 kilos.
In most cases, The Civil Guard usually has these devices inside the patrol car and see who is circulating above the maximum allowed speed. They can detect it while standing somewhere in the immediate vicinity of the road or even circulating along the road itself.
In this case, a citizen was outraged on social networks when finding a patrol car looking for who fines on a road. The indignation comes due to the location, and the agents took advantage of a section in which the speed to 50 kilometers per hour must be reduced and it is also prohibited to advance.
This means that they take advantage that many drivers do not have enough time to reduce speed, to impose a fine using the speed radar they carry in the vehicle. Specifically, This happened on the M-331 road in Madridin the ATAZAR reservoir area, an area in which the bikers frequent.
How are this type of mobile radars
Without a doubt, the most used types of mobile radars are Velolaser radars. This is one of the last types of radar to reach the DGT. It is a radar with laser technology that controls a road through the projection of laser lines. When a vehicle passes, The light beam is projected on it and bounces to the device, which allows calculating the distance and the elapsed time between which it goes and that light returns.
There are also trailer radars, an innovation not only because of their appearance, but also because of their autonomy, mobility and precision when identifying vehicles that exceed the maximum allowed speed. It is a radar that as the name implies is located on or inside a trailerwhich facilitates its mobility.
They are characterized by being very easy to disassemble and deploy anywhere, so it can be transferred from one point to another in a quite simple way. One of the things that is drawing attention is its ability to detect which users are circulating above the speed limits of the road, fine more than one vehicle in a matter of minutes.