31 road accidents , from January to June, in which the drivers of the vehicles were found to be in a state of psycho-physical alteration due to alcohol abuse, seven due to the consumption of psychotropic substances or narcotics.
Considering only the month of June, the local police of Sassari found a total of 106 incidents, two with very serious injuries. And last weekend a 35-year-old, during the night, was blocked in via Predda Niedda after traveling in the wrong direction in via Coppino. Subjected to breathalyser testing, he had a blood alcohol concentration over six times the permitted limit.
The agents further intensified the actions to strengthen road safety in the area with six different initiatives: transparency operation , with speed checks along the roads that record the highest levels of accidents; control stations , aimed at ascertaining the correct use of restraint systems on board vehicles; zombie smartphones , to prevent and suppress the use of cell phones by pedestrians crossing the roadway; widespread checks , especially on weekend nights, aimed at ascertaining the psychophysical conditions of vehicle drivers; safe pedestrians , a campaign that is based on the prevention and repression of wild parking which jeopardizes the safe mobility of pedestrians; repression of the use of mobile phones while driving, by the motorcycle department.
"The resurgence of accidents in the summer is linked to two factors: the significant growth of vehicles circulating on our roads due to tourist flows and the adoption of more relaxed driving behaviors during holidays which, unfortunately, increase the risk of accidents" he explains the commander Gianni Serra, who adds: “Another factor that assumes a significant weight on the accident is represented by the high speed: the road checks carried out in the urban roads of the territory in the month of June alone have produced the withdrawal of eight licenses; particularly worrying is the situation recorded in via Predda Niedda, the busiest urban road in the city, where in two days 4 driving licenses were withdrawn for exceeding the speed limits of more than forty kilometers above the permitted speed ".
Until the end of August the speed controls will be active on the SP42 at Campanedda, on the SP18 in correspondence with the hamlet of Bancali, in via De Martini, in viale Porto Torres, in Ottava, in via Prati, in via Millelire, in via Predda Niedda and on the Buddi Buddi.
