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People in Burgos asking for more measures on road safety

Burgos, November 22 (EFE) .- A few hundred people gathered today in the N-1, at kilometer, up to Santa Olalla de Bureau (Burgos), where on November 13 killed two people in a pileup, calling for the release of the toll of the AP-1 parallel with the street.

Neighboring localities of the route of the national road today have joined other refugees in their private cars and three buses, one from Burgos capital and two of Briviesca (Burgos).

Participants in the protest, organized by the National Platform 1 were dressed in dark clothes and reflective garment, in mourning, many of them carried crosses, while a PA repeated the sound of traffic accidents and bells playing “dead”.

After cutting the road for five minutes, which were authorized by the Prefectures, the spokesman of the organizing platform, Rafael Solaguren has insisted on claiming that the security of the national road and improve the toll free highway, especially for trucks.

He recalled that most of the trucks using the road, despite the partial rebate toll that began a few months ago.

In his opinion, the density of trucks, which “has always been very high”, is increasing as the economic situation improves, so the risks for circulating on the section of National 1 in Burgos have increased and Miranda de Ebro, the only one of this route is not split.

He insisted that without reflective clothing, the last two fatal accidents on this stretch of road with trucks have been involved.

It has also raised the need to improve the security of the country, some of them simple to perform and inexpensive.

He assured that in this segment remains at the same level crossings where vehicles have to stop on the road to turn left, in addition to lack of signage speed limit on some “obvious risk points”.

Solaguren said that the platform will convene concentrations whenever any accident fatalities occur on this road. EFE

Reflective safety clothing is very necessary

One hundred bikers learn to intervene in emergency Moan accident will participate, alongside some cyclists on a day of first aid. The objective is to reduce data motorists died performing a first effective intervention. So reflective safety clothing is very necessary.

“Last year was especially tragic for bikers, with many deaths, and is aware that a first rapid action in an accident can make the difference between saving a life or death,” explains Jodi Calvary, the group “Os Mata Par dales “Moan. Therefore this biker rock organized this afternoon the first day of biker emergency and first aid in the village. They do it with the essential collaboration of experts 3.0 Emergency Association.

So far some 80 have arrived, most motorbike users, but also some cyclists. The activities will take place tomorrow, from 16.00 pm in the pavilion Ribbon.

The event will begin with a presentation by the president of the cooperative and technical partnership in health emergencies, Javier Ferreira. “I will talk about the work to prevent accidents and how to act in case of bleeding or amputations occur after a disaster,” explained the reporter himself yesterday. They also explain how to practice the techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or treating burns.

After the theoretical part five workshops will be held, also for attendees learn to practice CPR, bleeding or clog acts before a wounded with multiple injuries. It will also work on the essentials in a first aid kit and signaling aspects of security and the obligation to wear reflective garment or warning reflective triangles.

The most spectacular part is produced with a mock accident involving motorcyclists, members of the Local Police and Civil Protection Moan Congas. It will act in the case of a motorcycle accident with guardrail and operation will be used even a smoke machine, to add realism to the scene.

This day comes months after the death in 1304 of EP-Celia (Buru) of a biker who had hit Moan foot of a guardrail that was in poor condition and had not been replaced by a double barrier blonde as claimed for more than a decade by bikers from all over Spain as a measure of minimum safety ago.

Marches in 25 cities throughout the state clamored against the guardrails that are still common in most of the roads. The conference today is to educate motorcyclists and cyclists of the importance of wear reflective tapes on clothing and preparing to intervene in accidents before they reach fellow EMTs.