The mobile radar that the Amposta Local Police placed last week in six points of the municipality fined 57 vehicles for speeding. Specifically, all of them exceeded 45 kilometers per hour, when the maximum speed allowed on those roads was 30 kilometers per hour.
From March 11 to 17, in total, the device controlled up to 673 vehicles on various roads in the city. Of these, 372 were traveling at a speed greater than 30 kilometers per hour and 57 exceeded 45 kilometers per hour. The maximum speed recorded during that week was 71 kilometers per hour, well above the limits established on roads of this type.
From the Amposta Local Police, they remember that, during 2023, pedagogical controls have been carried out to warn and raise awareness among users about the importance of complying with the established speed limits.
"We continue with the pedagogical will and that is why we continue to warn those who exceed 30 kilometers per hour and we have sanctioned those who exceeded 45 kilometers per hour," the chief inspector of the force, Josep Massana, told ACN.
Fines for speeding carry a financial penalty of one hundred to six hundred euros and the deduction of up to six points from the driving license, depending on whether it is considered serious or very serious.
For example, according to the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) on its website, if the limit for the road is 30 kilometers per hour and you travel between 50 and 60, the penalty is one hundred euros, but without subtraction of points. .
In the case of driving between 60 and 70 kilometers per hour, the fine would amount to three hundred euros and a two-point deduction for the driver of the vehicle.
In Catalonia, there are other radars that surpass Amposta's growing mobile device. The most penalized is the radar on the section of the AP-7 between Ulldecona and Amposta, in the province of Tarragona, which in 2022 located 59,036 drivers who violated the speed limit of 120 km/h. In second place was the radar located on the C-31 in Castell d'Aro (Girona), with 57,927 complaints made.
