The truck driver had already been arrested in 2008 and 2014 for road safety offenses.
Last Saturday, the Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia arrested the driver of a 40-ton articulated vehicle on the N-301 near Cieza for driving at almost nine times the maximum alcohol limit, a situation that put the life and physical integrity of road users at serious risk.
The Traffic Operations Centre (COTA) of the Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia was alerted by both the Albacete Traffic Subsector and the 112 emergency service that several users had called reporting that a heavy-duty articulated vehicle was travelling erratically on the A-30 motorway towards Murcia, with successive and dangerous zigzag movements between both lanes of the road.
Immediately, the Murcia Traffic Sector's COTA (Taxi Department) mobilized a motorcycle patrol from the Cieza Detachment. They detected the presence of a 40-ton articulated truck traveling in an obviously irregular manner at kilometer 105 of the A-30 highway. They removed it from the highway to avoid further risks and transported it to a designated location. At that moment, the officers noticed that the driver appeared to be in no condition to drive.
For this reason, the driver – a 31-year-old Spanish man from the Murcian district of El Palmar – was subjected to the mandatory breathalyzer tests in which He tested positive for alcohol in the prescribed tests, which were 1.23 and 1.29 milligrams per liter of exhaled air, almost nine times the maximum permitted level for professional drivers, which is 0.15 mg/liter.
Given these circumstances, the driver, who had loaded the vehicle with vegetables in Mercamadrid and was traveling to Pulpí (Almería), was arrested as a suspected perpetrator of the crime of driving under the influence of alcohol, significantly exceeding the established limits, and was brought before the Investigating Court No. 4 of Cieza.
Given the high blood alcohol level, the vehicle was immobilized at the stop due to the dangers of driving a heavy-duty vehicle in these conditions. The company that owned the vehicle dispatched another driver that same afternoon who, after verifying that he was licensed and met the appropriate conditions, was able to remove the vehicle to continue the journey.
Source: Civil Guard.
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