Urges an information campaign on how to overtake a group of cyclists, because ignorance of the standard is higher the older drivers have.
I was driving my car on Sunday by the PO-308 road and went through Covelo, around two in the afternoon. An unexpected retention alerted me, just an accident. They had not arrived or health services, or even the Civil Guard Civil Protection. Only a person with a reflective vest in the middle of the road, with exceptionally meritorious conduct, made us sign for vehicles towards Monteverdi to avoid were to stop us at the scene of a person in a car, covered with a blanket, a the other surrounding neighbors. Way of the capital and shocked by that fleeting image, passed in the opposite direction, toward the crash site, a first ambulance lexicalized then another, then two policemen on a motorcycle and almost reaching, the team packed with traffic.
The severity of injuries was such that Jorge Vazquez, 36, amateur cyclist, died there. Struck by an absurd and reckless maneuver by a driver who had just overtake meters before the curve to a pair of cyclists, Jorge himself and his partner Nikko.
Relearn her standard
How many more deaths will have to occur on the roads for institutions affronted implement measures involving an effective reduction of the windings cyclists?
I fear that displease them as much as I know that in 2015, 42 fans died practicing their sport cycling, five of them in Galicia. And in 2016 cyclists killed in Spain were 33. I did not find the specific item of Galicia, but we all remember the most famous case, the winding conductor produced a bunch of cyclists, 2 fatalities and half a dozen wounded. Thirteen months ago. Since then the authorities, particularly both the DGT and the Junta promised several measures to quell this type of accident. Of these, only the distribution of reflective safety vests cyclists have begun among some groups of sports fans pedal. But most packaging performances are not registered.
Urges an awareness campaign and information to drivers on what stipulates the rule: one must observe a safe distance meter and a half to overtake a cyclist and you can invading the opposite lane and online always continuous not circulate any car front. Save this safety distance is not a whim. Any who do not observe advancement carries risk, since the air generated when the vehicle exceeds the rider can get to move or tear it down?
Novice drivers soaked out that knowledge from the driving school. The severe problem occurs with drivers very advanced ages. No coincidence that the author of winding the last Sunday in Covelo has neither 82, nor the author of outrage squad of cyclists in March 2016 had 87.
Stop Accidents groups such as Galicia has repeatedly claimed that from the age of 65, drivers are forced to relearn lead recycling regulations.
In addition, both institutions announced by this casuistry as the emergence of senior drivers on motorways contrary, psycho tests required for renewal of license would harden. Unfortunately the statistics do not yet reflect a corrective effect.
Roads are Boulevards
The incident occurred last Sunday in one of the roads which supports more vehicle traffic, especially on hot dates, as now happens at Easter. At the same time, the PO-308 is one of the preferred routes for hundreds of cyclists to practice their sport, which requires the necessary coexistence between them. That road has become a kind of boulevard between Monteverdi and Annex, without possible expandability because urban pressure reached the edge of the road. And where there's shoulder, as the warm weather arrives, it is occupied by thousands of cars that use it as parking to go to the beaches.
For the PO-552, A Guard Barona, equipped with bike path and a separator concrete, which shook so much that ended up turning it into a mousetrap, it was found that the design was wrong to ensure road safety.