The DGT traffic department’s first ever anti-drugs campaign got underway on Monday, and minutes after it started a drugged motorist tried to run down a member of the Guardia Civil just a few metres from a control point where, because it was the first day, the Guardia Civil had invited journalists. It’s now known that the driver had taken methadone. The injured agent, Ángel Noé Riviero Rodriguez, jumped away in time and was only slightly hurt. Director of the DGT, María Segui, has said that some 500 deaths could be avoided if drugs had not been taken. The control point was located on the road to la Cañada Real, the shanty town outside Madrid, and she said that nearly 20% of the people stopped had taken drugs. Driving drugged carries a 500 € fine and the removal of six points from your licence. If the driver looks under the symptoms of drugs, he could be indicted for a crime against the highway safety, which get prison sentences of six months and the removal of the driving licence between one and four years.
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