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About eight thousand vehicles had to be returned to their points of origin throughout the country, after the Carabineros prevented them from trespassing the sanitary cords provided by the authorities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
General Manuel Valdés, head of the Carabineros Transit and Highway Zone, made a first balance tonight, with a few hours still to go before these preventive measures are closed throughout the country.
Regarding the capital, the police chief indicated that in the last few days, a total of 72 thousand vehicles left the Metropolitan Region on the five highways. “If we compare this to a similar weekend, as it was in 2017, which also had the three holidays, 280 thousand vehicles came out on that occasion,” he explained.
He added that “if we now compare it with Easter, there is a slight increase of seven thousand mobiles.”
For General Valdés, a key, fundamental difference in the vehicles that were returned for not having the required safeguards to circumvent the sanitary cords throughout the country.
“In this long weekend, nationwide, 7,816 vehicles had to be returned in all regions. Only in the RM 1,683 cars were counted, well above the 1,223 that were in Easter, “he said.
He also pointed out that 1,020 quarantine offenders were registered in the communes that this sanitary measure governs.
Regarding traffic accidents, he stated that “there was a decrease, for obvious reasons, of 58%, with seven people deceased, in relation to the 23 that were found in a similar period.”
Lastly, Carabineros apprehended 29 subjects who had pending arrest warrants for different crimes.
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