Licenses will be suspended for those who let their minor children drive cars

Several cases have been reported in recent days. where children are seen taking the wheeleither above the driver’s skirt or, directly driving the car, when they even barely reach the pedals. “These behaviors endanger the lives of children and people around them,” the Agency said.

“This is not accidental and they are not isolated cases. It is already a social problem: there is a habit of endangering children by giving them the wheel. They do not do it in a field: they do it on streets and highways. We are the adults who have to reflect what are we doing with our children”, expressed Pablo Martínez Carignano, executive director of the ANSV. On Wednesday the ANSV received a video through the complaints channel, where you can see a child driving a car in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego. The images show that the boy can barely see over the steering wheel and that it is recorded by his father, who is accompanying him.

On the other hand, it isThis Thursday, images went viral where you can see a taxi driver, in the province of Córdoba, carrying his son on his lap while driving letting him take the direction of the car. In both cases the ANSV contacted the municipalities where the national driver’s licenses are located and with joint work between both state agencies, The suspension of both licenses was carried out.

The suspension arises from provision 384/2020 promoted by the ANSV, which allows the provisional suspension of the National Driver’s License of drivers who present some type of alteration of their ability to drive and who register a serious danger to road safety. PTo report acts of road violence, the ANSV enabled the WhatsApp line 011-6207-0590, where citizens can make their complaint by sending the material they record identifying the person responsible. They can also do so through the ANSV’s social networks -InfoSegVial- and/or by mail.