He himself wanted to file a complaint with the Civil Guard, although he could not accompany it with evidence that could give credence to what he said.
Thanks to this video, a cyclist manages to impute a driver for reckless overtaking. And this cyclist has achieved the ultimate test. He himself wanted to file a complaint with the Civil Guard, although he could not accompany it with evidence that could give credence to what he said. Until he got this video, some images that showed, according to the Civil Guard, that the denounced driver had made a reckless overtaking.
And in this video, which has not been made public, you can see how the occupants of another vehicle and several cyclists are endangered. The Traffic Group of the Civil Guard of the Traffic Subsector of Las Palmas, opened an investigation on November 7 to a 57-year-old man, for the alleged authorship of a crime against Road Safety.
“There are not many users who are encouraged to make this type of complaint, either due to ignorance of this option, or because of the difficulty of starting the sanctioning procedure,” said the RACE. The Civil Guard detected in the same video that the driver was driving in a manifestly reckless manner by carrying out a prohibited overtaking of a vehicle and several bicycles while driving in the opposite direction to another cyclist.
Specifically, the maneuver was carried out on the stretch of road on the GC-21 Teror cart in the direction of Las Palmas. And it was not until one of those involved provided some recorded images. After his analysis in the investigation, they allowed to obtain the data and identification of the driver. The images corresponded to the camera located on the cyclist who found the vehicle carrying out the illegal overtaking.
In the same video, it can be seen how the accused driver completes an overtaking maneuver against a passenger car and two cyclists who preceded him in an area where overtaking is prohibited. This is a section with a curve and reduced visibility, signposted prohibiting overtaking. While overtaking another cyclist was circulating in the opposite direction.
Reckless driving is included in articles 380 and 381 of the Criminal Code, and various sanctions are contemplated. Prison sentences from six months to two years, which can be raised to five years if they find “manifest contempt for the lives of others.” Fine of twelve to twenty-four months or deprivation of the right to drive vehicles and mopeds for a period of more than one year and up to six years. Ten years in the most serious cases.
