The vehicle technical inspection, which will also include the docks and ports, will begin in 2025 and will have 58 centers throughout the country, reported today the director of the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intranet), Hugo Beraswho emphasized the need for its application as an ideal mechanism to reduce traffic accidents.
He argued that the inspection of vehicles in the Dominican Republic cannot be postponed, not only because it is a mandate of Law 63-17 on Mobility, Land Transportation, Transit and Road Safety, but also because it would offer greater security to those who travel through streets, avenues and roads.
accidents
Beras said that unfortunately in the country there are more than 100,000 traffic accidents a year and some three thousand people die from this cause and that, in addition, the State allocates 2.2% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year to medical assistance in favor of those affected in collisions.
Comipol
The official indicated that a survey carried out by the Military and Police Commission (Comipol) of the Ministry of Public Works, establishes that 64% of the accidents that occur are due to mechanical failures, a figure that in his opinion is worrying.
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“It is that many vehicles are not in good condition and you have a vehicle fleet that the State has never administered, has never supervised, you never know what condition the vehicles are in, and that is why you see that in the end, they cause accidents, you injure yourself and, unfortunately, cause your death,” Beras explained during a visit to El Nacional.
For the director of Intrant, this problem is not solved with operations, but with a technical inspection that allows the State to control the condition of the cars, buses, trucks, and motorcycles.
“It is the correct method, it is the technical method to be able to identify the vehicles that are in the Dominican Republic and to be able to survey the conditions of the vehicles; to demand from the companies that have vehicles and from the people that the vehicles have the correct conditions: tires, brakes and emissions”, he pointed out.
scrap metal
Hugo Beras explained that two years after starting the inspection process, that is, in 2027, the elimination of junk vehicles will proceed.
He specified that Law 63-17, approved in 2017, contains that 10 years after its approval (2027) the process of removing vehicles that are not fit for circulation must begin.
He said that these vehicles would go to a retention center, then the sale of the same is made and finally the State will compensate him so that he can acquire another car.
Port review
The Intrant director said that supervision points will be installed in ports and docks so that as soon as a vehicle arrives at those places, the inspection process will begin, from which those three years old will be exempt.
“From the ports we will have the records of the vehicles, because they will have to pass an inspection, and there you limit any type of vehicle that does not have conditions and thus prevents its entry,” added the director of the Intrat during his visit to this wording.
A note
Tender
Hugo Beras said that the bidding process is underway, and that two companies, with international experience, review vehicles in the country. After the tender, the private companies will begin the assembly of the points for the review.
