HOW TO AVOID BEING CAUGHT BY SPEED CAMERAS HOW TO AVOID BEING CAUGHT BY SPEED CAMERAS

ally WANTS you to know where they are. The reason is simple. Fixed cameras and radars are always installed in areas which are prone to incidents, what we might call “black spots”, and so as much as they are capable of enforcement through fines, for a large part, they are installed to serve as a deterrent. To slow vehicles down to within the permitted limits of the roads, so as to avoid the risky behaviour which the areas have previously experienced.

the location of a traffic control is also illegal, and some of these apps facilitate this. To begin with, we must have the latest version of the Google Maps application installed. Then we will open the app and click on the profile picture on the top right. In "Settings" we will enter "Navigation Settings" (towards the bottom of the menu). There, within "Driving options" we will activate the "Speed ??limits" and "Speedometer" options. Then go back to the map.

Although devices that detect, notify you of speed radars and the presence of the security bodies are prohibited, with hefty fines for just owning such an item, there are ways that you can be informed of certain speed cameras, which therefore allows you to avoid getting caught out. Firstly, we need to explain that although that opening paragraph might seem contradictory, it is factually accurate, because there is a difference in what we are talking about. The “detectors” notify you of both fixed and mobile speed detectors.

The notification of the mobile speed detectors is prohibited. As for the fixed camera and radar network, the DGT traffic authority actu-

The DGT has 780 fixed speed control radars, of which 92 are section ones (such as in the tunnel near Alicante, for example), and 545 mobile radars on board vehicles, as well as more than a dozen Pegasus helicopter radars. The location of the fixed network is public, and you can even see their locations on the DGT website, whilst the mobile radars change constantly and are not usually announced. Several apps on the market will tell you where the fixed radars are located. Google Maps is the most widespread, but there are also others, some which work in the background. Be careful though, because sharing

You may need to activate the “traffic” layer in the app. In that case, we will press the layers button, which looks like a diamond, located in the upper right corner. In the “Details” menu select “Traffic”. This will activate the layer that will inform you of each radar found on your route, and will also show you the traffic conditions on the map, including congestion and incidents.

Finally, you are permitted to use mapping devices on your mobile whilst driving, but the device must be fixed securely and safely to the vehicle, and you must not touch the device when driving. Stop your vehicle if you need to change anything.

Valencia Man Wakes Up In Body Bag

Waking up as a forensic doctor is about to remove your corpse to the morgue is not the best way of starting the day, but for one man, a resident of Valencia, he got the fright of his life, as of course did all those standing by, when he sprang into life as his lifeless form was being zipped up into a body bag. Although the story has a happy ending, at the time it provided quite a fright for the doctor, several judicial officers and relatives, as the ‘deceased’ suddenly ‘came back to life’.

It happened last Friday night in Calle Palau in central Valencia. A neighbour of the alleged deceased called an emergency telephone number, concerned that he had not seen or heard from his friend for many days. Worried about the possibility that something had happened to him, he decided to raise the alarm. So, as cases of people dying absolute solitude are not unusual, the firefighters attended the scene, along with medical professionals and the local police.

On finding the subject of the story lying down without any signs of consciousness, they made the mandatory call to the judicial commission, which of course includes the presence of a forensic doctor to certify the death. On their arrival, as they lifted the body and placed it in the body bag in order to take it to the Institute Legal Medicine (IML) for an autopsy, the 'deceased' sprang into life, startling all those present, who had given him up for dead. Fortunately, he was subsequently spared the autopsy.

Last year the staff of the Forensic Pathology Service of the IML of Valencia carried out 1,775 autopsies. Of these, 890 were natural deaths, 413 accidental, 214 suicides, 18 homicides, 218 pending determination, 15 undetermined, and seven that were just skeletal remains. Fortunately, our subject will not now appear in the 2023 stats.