Seven radars distributed along different conventional roads (2 in the Community of Madrid, 2 in Castilla-La Mancha, 2 in Castilla y León and 1 in the Valencian Community) have been vandalized and the DGT has already filed the corresponding complaints to investigate the facts and try to find the causes of damage.
This has been confirmed by the traffic body. The damage has been committed, they say, both in fixed radars and in section radars and damage costs ascend to 67,000 euros In the case of fixed cinemometers and 66,000 euros for section radars. Therefore, the maximum cost of damages can rise to 469,000 euros.
The cost of radars, both section and fixed, is so high due to the enormous amount of technology they have. Explain the DGT on its own website That a stretch radar consists of cameras that use laser technology to capture images continuously, an apparatus to guarantee communication between the entrance and exit of the section and a last device that calculates the time spent to overcome the guarded section.
When the average speed registered is higher than the allowed, one last device sends the information to the DGT data center to process the complaint and verify that all the information is in order.
A prison sentence
The DGT points out in its statement that vandalizes radars can be considered a crime against traffic safety. Committing this type of actions “is constitutive of a crime of damage typified in the Criminal Code in its articles 263 to 267 in which a series of actions are contemplated that cause a impairment in the patrimonial value of the property of others and whose protected legal good It is heritage. “
In these articles it is specified that those who are tried by these facts can be punished with “imprisonment from one to three years and a fine of twelve to twenty -four months “to those who cause, among other cases,” that affect goods of domain or public or communal use “or, among others” damage of special gravity or affected to general interests have been caused. “
It is also specified in these articles that can assume these punishments when “the damage aims to prevent the free exercise of authority or are carried out as a result of the actions executed by the authority in the exercise of their functions.”
At the moment, it is not known how many people are investigated or any other detail about the case. We do know, by the DGT statement itself and how the Civil Guard itself has confirmed to questions from Xatakathat already investigate what happened but they cannot advance more details.
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