The LED lights installed on vehicles will be eliminated
SANTO DOMINGO. Today the traffic authorities begin with the supervision of drivers whose vehicles circulate on roads with self-installed high-luminosity lights.
According to the executive director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant), Claudia Franchesca de los Santos, the measure seeks to prevent accidents from occurring due to the glare of drivers, as contemplated by resolution number 009-2018, issued by that institution.
“We created a table with the General Directorate of Traffic and Land Transportation (Digesett), which is aware of what is happening on the tracks, and the Police and Military Commission of the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (Comipol), which make us the reports of what is happening with cargo vehicles, light and with motorcycles, “said the official.
He recalled that those who are caught using these LED lights should disassemble them from their vehicles or be fined with a minimum wage in force in the centralized public sector, as established by Law 63-17 of Mobility, Land Transportation, Traffic and Road Safety of the Dominican Republic .
“It’s something that is not normal; It’s like a luxury; It’s like something fashionable, but something fashionable can not threaten the safety of drivers,” he said.
De los Santos explained: “They have called people saying: ‘Well, my vehicle had them from the factory’. If it has them from the factory there are no problems, because the factory knows how to direct them so that the one who comes from the front does not dazzle; the problem is all these bars and all these attachments that in the end what they are is an adornment of the vehicle, which are not designed in what way you direct the light towards the driver who comes from the front, “clarified the official.
Exceptions
The resolution number 009-2018 exempts from being inspected and fined for the use of high luminosity lights to the patrols and other service vehicles of the National Police, civil protection and rescue, health care or ambulances and trucks firemen’s.
For sports use
Vehicles that use high-luminosity lights for sports activities must present Digesett agents with a special permit granted by the Intrant and they will be required to be covered while traveling on public roads.
The permit for these purposes will be valid for one year and may be renewed for the same period. The Digesett exhorted through a statement to those who make use of lights of high luminosity in their vehicles to take the pertinent measures to avoid being inspected and forced to dismantle them by their agents.
Expressing fear of led lights
Some drivers complained that LED lights take away visibility, which can lead to accidents. During the first seven months of this year, at least 435 people have died in 532 traffic accidents, registering in January alone a total of 97 deaths from this cause. Only in the first three months of this 2018, a total of 330 people died in traffic accidents in the country, with motorcycles involved in 63% of the cases, according to statistics from the Observatory of Public Safety.
Source: diariolibre.com
Aug 18, 2018
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