New dairy spoke about the issue with the councilor with his mandate fulfilled and former official of Citizen Mobility of the capital, as well as a reference in Road Safety, Raul Cordoba, who explained details about the support for the project that promotes the modification of the Zero Tolerance Law for Alcohol, so that those people who in a control exceed 1 gram of alcohol are delayed for 24, 48 or 72 hours. There are other provinces in which there are up to 15 days of delay, said the former municipal official.
Córdoba, in this way, raised concerns about the lack of control and awareness over road safety in Salta, especially with regard to alcohol consumption and driving. The proposal that the Güemense deputy would present shortly goes in that direction, German Rallé, in the Salta legislature, in order to toughen the sanctions. Public roads have become very dangerous, with disastrous statistics and high-profile cases such as what happened on Paraguay Avenue, among others. Five fatalities in recent months, he stated.
In that same direction, he recalled that although the Provincial Zero Alcohol Law has been in force since 2013, however, we fall short with offenders, not only on weekends despite the law that is in force. For Córdoba, this unfortunate phenomenon is due to a series of factors ranging from the dilution of family ties, the absence of empathy and lack of training, to information at different levels and its psychosocial effects: what we have to do is strengthen the campaigns , on the one hand, to educate citizens, on the other hand to control them and on the other hand to punish. They are the three axes in which road safety must work, any type of executive, he asserted.
The former councilor also emphasizes the need to review the judicial system, especially with regard to the sentences imposed in cases of manslaughter related to road accidents. He points out media cases where the sentences have been light, which generates impunity and lack of justice for the victims and their families.
In addition, he highlighted the importance of road safety education, both in educational institutions and in the media, to raise awareness about the associated risks.
The project
Córdoba also pointed out the need for urgent modifications to the province’s Penal Code to establish minimum sentences of three years and one day in these cases, without the possibility of an abbreviated trial, which would send a clear message about the seriousness of this type of crime. What we ask through deputy Germán Rallé is to modify the provincial traffic law in articles 4 and 5, which already establishes the consumption of more than one gram of alcohol in the blood at the time of the control and that that person who delays either 24, 48, 72 hours. La Rioja applies up to 15 days, because we all know the instability that alcohol consumption produces. We hope that the debate reaches the chamber, that it continues, that the opinions of the different experts and of society itself are consulted, and that the person knows, when they go out on a weekend, that they are not going to return to work on Monday, He will not be able to present himself because he is delayed and he will surely think about it next week.
Finally, he recalled another project to disqualify people accused of causing death from driving vehicles until the trial takes place.
