PUERTO PLATA.- Many comments more in favor than repudiation have generated in this Atlantic city the fine imposed by traffic officers on a young woman pregnant who was driving a motorcycle without a protective helmet.
This event happened on Separación Street, exactly in front of the legendary Guinea Bridge, when the pregnant woman was driving a Honda engine, a blue Super Cub-50 model, lacking a license plate.
Because she violated Law No. 63-17, the agents of the General Directorate of Traffic and Land Transportation Security (DIGESETT) who carried out their daily duties on said road in the central area of “La Novia del Atlántico”, without hesitation, applied the fine to the woman.
Witnesses reported that the woman, while pregnant, was wearing a striped jumpsuit, with a tubi on her head, a purse on her side and slippers on her feet. She did not flinch and received the violation for the offense committed with a frown.
It is speculated that the amount of the inspection applied to the young pregnant woman for driving the motorcycle without a protective helmet, which also did not have a license plate, was RD$1,500 to RD$2,000 pesossince it is a double offense.
Opinions
This event caused a rain of citizen lawsuits, where a total of 120 comments registered on the Facebook of the newspaper Puerto Plata Digital, the vast majority favored the actions of the DIGESETT agents and criticized the woman for acting inappropriately.
“That girl with this pansúa should have taken more care of herself, since article 157 of Law 63-17, Law No. 63-17, on Mobility, Land Transportation, Traffic and Road Safety of the Dominican Republic, establishes the mandatory use of protective helmets for motorcycle drivers,” said a man with the last name Rodríguez.
Mrs. Joselyn Hernández said: “They had to give him three fines, one for the lack of a protective helmet, one for the lack of a license plate and another for putting the baby at risk.” While the communicator Cipriano Francisco Tavárez (Fífi), maintained: “The law does not provide if you are pregnant, pregnant or pregnant. The law is the law and it must be followed.”
Likewise, María Beatríz Fernández González, when giving her opinion on the matter, stated: “I don’t see it as bad for the agent, but she must have a head to think about taking care of herself with the creature she carries inside her womb, or maybe she is crazy.”
The lawyer and communicator Miguel Ángel Ricardo Cueto (Guelo) said: “There is no one who understands the citizen, this agent who, if he is complying with the Law by fining that lady, asks him for a chance. And if he had taken the engine away, they would be finishing him off… Don’t screw around, stick if it’s good and stick if not good.”
However, other citizens in a smaller numerical proportion assure that the DIGESETT agents supposedly should have “given a chance” to the aforementioned woman because she is pregnant.
“That is wrong, although you have to take care of yourself, but you don’t know if that woman is a single mother or if she works to fine a pregnant woman, who doesn’t know how she does it to survive and be able to support herself during her pregnancy,” said the young Noemí Estephani.
Likewise, Mr. Carlos Tavárez alleges that “it is not a matter of helmet, it is a matter of business, because they (the agents) do not give a chance, if it were to take care of you they would have more conscience. The Digesetts go out to the streets every day to issue fines and they hide behind the light poles and they come out suddenly.”
Finally, “to put the lid on the door,” citizen José Noel Santos Ciriaco stated: “People do not like order or respect, they always want to paint the guards, the police, as bad, whether from Digesett, Politur, Dicrim, etc., when in reality they are not obedient to the laws.”
