The CNAE has requested that driver training be improved to reduce the accident rate on secondary roads.
Seven out of ten people who die as a result of a traffic accident they do it on a back road. This tragic fact has made the National Confederation of Driving Schools (CNAE) reflect, which has requested that the preparation of future drivers be reinforced to avoid it.
As you well know, secondary roads are a type of road that are characterized by having one lane each way and that they have a greater range of danger because their asphalt is usually in worse condition and overtaking, in which you have to drive in the lane in the opposite direction, are more risky.
CNAE maintains that there are students in driving schools who obtain a driving license without facing these types of roads, something that is later noticed behind the wheel. “There are locations where applicants for the permit cannot circulate in the practical test on any secondary roadwith which they are not adequately prepared to travel safely on roads of this type, points out the president of the Confederation, Enrique Lorca.
Given this, CNAE has presented a proposal to the Administration so that, in those places where it is difficult or almost impossible to access secondary roads during the driving test, the students receive compulsory training from their driving school that can be verified by the examiner. allows certifying that the applicant is fully capable of driving on these types of roads.
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“No one should obtain a driving license without knowing how to drive on the most demanding roads from the point of view of road safety”, added Lorca. «If the test is going to take place only through a town or, at most, along a section of motorway, the normal thing is that the student is reluctant to drive on a conventional road, since he considers it a waste of time. It is a mistake that can have serious consequences.”
The CNAE proposal joins those already launched a few weeks ago by the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) in this regard. Among them, the inclusion of signals with sensors at the crossings; the use of paint of another color in sections of the road, a greater width of the median separating the lanes and the use of ditch protection devices, as well as sound guides.