Following the amendment on mining accidents in the CDMX, the Ministry of Mobility (SEMOV), the Ministry of Civil Protection (SSC) and the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions (AMIS) began training personnel from the Undersecretary of Control of Transit to participate in these roads. accidents.
Its purpose is to strengthen the knowledge of the authorities in relation to the amendment of Article 54 of the Traffic Regulations of Mexico City.
The training focuses on why vehicles involved in mine accidents need to be removed and police officers need to know how to properly explain this to motorists.
On 17 May, amendments to the traffic regulations came into force, allowing the movement of vehicles involved in mine collisions, unless there is an injured person who has insurance.
Vehicles may not be moved from the site when people are injured or dead, the unit is not in a position to transmit, drivers are in a state of intoxication or are under the influence of any drugs or there is damage on public roads Is.
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Andres Lajaus, head of Semovy, recalled that the correction to the article published last week has two purposes.
First, in order to protect people’s lives, once in a mining-type incident, don’t get out of the car and put yourself at risk; And second, to speed up the flow of vehicles so that there is no blockage”, he said.
Carlos Omar Jimenez, Director of Damages and Cars, AMIS, explained that one of the priorities of the insurance sector is to protect the victims of road accidents, for which he believed that this joint work would be very useful.
