The seized vehicles were left on the side of Route 7, between the first and second roundabouts, and then taken to the Fifth Police Station. The long line of cars and trucks could be seen early Sunday morning.
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Positive alcohol test: the vehicles hijacked between the first and second Centenario roundabouts.
The Director of Transit and Transportation, Carlos Torres explained that in the place “there were 14 positive cases of alcoholism (8) 17 licenses were seized in total for other violations) with a maximum of 2.74” and added that among the drivers “there was a repeat offender who had already been fined for the same offense.”
Alcoholemia: an unusual recurrence
The operation was carried out by the Villa Obrera Traffic Police, in conjunction with municipal inspectors last Saturday from 11 p.m., and until the early hours of Sunday morning in the Plaza del Bicentenario.
Both municipal traffic inspectors, personnel from the National Road Safety Agency, police officers from Villa Obrera Traffic and the Fifth Police Station were in charge of it and In total, 489 people were controlled and 487 were trafficked.
The numbers are surprising since in just two hours 16 vehicles were hijacked, a total of 14 for blood alcohol levels with values that reached 2.74 g/l.
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The alcohol tests were carried out by the Municipality in conjunction with the Police in Centenario.
There was the case of the driver of a Volkswagen Saveiro who was transporting egg maples and on May 24 They had stopped him at a checkpoint at the toll plaza and not only did he not have a food permit. He was drunk, in this case he had 2.40 grams, so they hijacked his truck again.
According to Torres, 14 licenses were seized due to alcohol levels and two due to expiration. In addition, 30 contravention reports were issued due to the lack of mandatory documentation to travel.
Fines and Zero Alcohol
Centenario ordinance 9,594/23 adheres to Provincial Law 2284 sanctioned on June 15 of this yearunder the “Provincial Zero Alcohol Program”. The local commune had 90 days to regulate the rule, but it took a while to do so and for a time Zero Alcohol in Centenario did not apply.
The regulation of the standard was oriented towards sanctions, that is, the kidnapping procedure, the value of the modules and the incorporation of this type of infraction to the Municipal Code of Misdemeanors. This was just done a month ago.
The ordinance could not be applied “by default” and in the regulations there were a series of organizations that had to work on the final text.
The fines for alcoholism are high, since the sanctions They are tied not to the value of a liter of super gasoline, as happens in other locations, but to a percentage of a salary category on the scale of Centenario’s municipal employees.
This generated a spike in the value of the fines that, for many, no longer have the educational meaning but instead become “confiscatory.”
