Road Safety calls for responsibility at Christmas: “If you drive, don’t drink”

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The National Road Safety Agency is fighting for the enactment of a law that establishes “zero alcohol” at the wheel at the national level, a norm that this year achieved the approval of the Chamber of Deputies and who is fit to be treated in the senate compound already having commission opinion.

“The proposal to bring the only limit allowed to drive a motorized vehicle to zero is in line with the regulations of other countries in the region, and of twelve provinces and more than 40 cities in the country, where the results are favorable,” they point out from the ANSV, led by Pablo Martínez Carignano.

Zero Alcohol at the Wheel Law

The project was presented by the Executive Power in April 2021 in the Chamber of Deputies.

“ANSV developed this initiative in conjunction with the National Ministry of Health, the Secretariat of Comprehensive Drug Policies of the Argentine Nation (Sedronar), associations of relatives of traffic victims and national legislators.”

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Last week, more than 160 organizations that bring together the relatives of traffic victims They asked the senators that before the end of the year the project for which “more than twenty years” they have been fighting.

In a letter sent to the national senators, the signatory civil society organizations asked the Upper House to hold a session before the end of the year “in order to convert into law the project for which all these organizations have come for more than twenty years struggling”.

The communiqué, which bears the signature of the Mothers of Pain Association, Yellow Stars, Red Cuidarte + and other organizations from different parts of the country, maintains that “Alcohol is present in one of every four serious traffic incidents.”