While the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) strives to ask motorists to use safe equipment - with thick jackets with airbags, gloves, and Kevlar or thick fabric pants and motorcycle boots - as this reduces injuries between 33% and 50%, the Civil Guard Traffic Group, meanwhile, keeps its agents that protect the safety of Spanish roads more and more unprotected.
Recycled helmets of other agents, motorcycle uniforms without airbags or poles are so worn that they have reflective fabric and worn shields. These are the complaints that the AUGC association has brought to light in these days in which the DGT insists so much on the safety equipment of motorists.
If until now the agents of the Civil Guard Traffic Association received new helmets every 4 years, now the old helmets pass through the workshop and are delivered as recycled and temporary replacement helmets to another agent if the helmet is broken new. "The fact that they give you recycled helmets has never happened," AUGC sources in Salamanca acknowledge, where they also corroborate that the poles of the Traffic agents "are making a mess" waiting for the new uniformity to arrive.
The DGT recommends jackets or vests with airbags to motorists, since they protect vital areas of the body in the event of an accident. However, from AUGC it is criticized that the Traffic Group "ignoring the recommendations, takes out new uniforms without an airbag." An element that will continue to demand in the garments so that the work of the agents is safer.
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