Police clamping down on speeding

The Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) is carrying out road inspection this week aimed at speed control, especially on the most critical roads in terms of accidents.

By TPN/Lusa, in News, Portugal · 08 Aug 2022, 09:03 · 2 Comments

In a statement, the GNR explains that, with this action ('Roadpol - Speed'), which runs until Sunday 14, it also intends to raise society's awareness of the importance of adopting safer behaviours by drivers, with a view to promoting road safety and safeguarding human lives.

In 2021, the GNR recorded a total of 69,186 traffic accidents, of which at least 3,564 had speeding as the main cause.

Regarding speed inspection, last year 142,721 infractions were recorded.

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Comments

" raise society's awareness of the importance of adopting safer behaviours by drivers" and pigs will fly!

By Greg from Other on 08 Aug 2022, 09:36

Maybe try the 'Points System' they use in Ireland. Lowesr infraction is 3 points on your licence. (Which is notified to your Insurance company) more serious infractions get more up to a limit of 12 points where you lose your licence for a period of time (I think a year and up to 3 years,not too sure of this) The Insurance companies can raise your payments according to the amount of points or seriousness of fractions.
There is a difference in the amount of points you are over the legal limit too.
When the points system came in first there was a drastic drop in speeding and bad driving because it actually hit them in the wallet !!!

By Tommy from Algarve on 10 Aug 2022, 08:09