INTRODUCTION

 

Dear readers,

It is a pleasure to welcome you to this new edition of our scientific security magazine. On this occasion, we present a serie of articles that address highly relevant and current topics in the field of road safety and its related legislation. After the rigorous review process to which the scientific articles we receive are subjected, a total of ten articles have finally been selected to make up this number 2, entitled “Road Safety: from Strategy to the conduct of Road Safety Units”.

We start the magazine with the collaborations section. In this edition we have two collaborators: Luis del Río Montesdeoca, distinguished Court Prosecutor and Road Safety Coordinator, who offers us an insightful analysis on the need for a Specialized Prosecutor's Office in Road Safety; and Vicente Magro Servet, eminent Judge of the Supreme Court and Doctor of Law, who presents his exhaustive study on the practice of the crime of fleeing from the scene of the accident.

 

In the research section, we present a serie of studies that address various aspects of road safety. We begin with the author Sergio García Palacín, Lieutenant of the Guardia Civil and Head of the Torrelavega Traffic Detachment, who offers us a meticulous study on "the breaking of vehicle immobilizations on the interurban roads of Cantabria." Alberto Page de la Azuela, Second Lieutenant Cadet of the Guardia Civil and graduate in Security Engineering from the Carlos III University of Madrid, presents his detailed work on "operational devices on public roads with a speed limit of up to 50 km/h ".

 

Ricardo Serrano de Andrés, also a Second Lieutenant Cadet of the Guardia Civil and a graduate in Security Engineering, offers us a futuristic vision in the investigation and reconstruction of road accidents with his article on "the E.D.R device (Event Data Recorder) and its application to help on reducing accidents." Next, Isaac Llorente Blanco, 1st Corporal of the Guardia Civil and Motorist specialist of the Traffic Division, offers us his innovative vision on "criminological aspects of road safety."

 

José Javier Martínez Martínez, Lieutenant of the Guardia Civil and Technical Specialist in Management Information Technology, offers us an analysis of the “serious road accidents on interurban roads in the region of Murcia with the involvement of foreign drivers.” Pedro José Molina García, Malaga Local Police Officer and Master in Road Safety from the Guardia Civil University Center, presents his study on “VMP micromobility on urban roads”.

 

Marco Teijón Alcalá, from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), offers us his vision of “the protected legal asset in crimes against road safety: towards a model of systemic functionalism.” Iván Marcos Ortiz, Local Police of Santander and Doctor in Criminology, together with Josefa Muñoz Ruiz, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Murcia, and Eduardo Osuna Carrillo de Albornoz, Professor of Legal and Forensic Medicine at the University of Murcia, offer us a study on “prevalence and criminological aspects of the consumption of alcohol and other drugs in drivers subjected to detection tests in urban areas during the coronavirus pandemic.”

 

We have an article by José Antonio Mérida Fernández, Provincial Chief of Traffic of Zaragoza, in which he presents his pioneering study on "risks associated with intervention in road accidents involving electric vehicles." In addition, we have the participation of Rocío Martín Ríos, Prosecutor Attached to the Road Safety Prosecutor's Office of Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla, who offers us an analysis of the crimes of homicide and reckless injuries committed with a motor vehicle or moped.

 

In the jurisprudence review section, Javier Ignacio Reyes López, Magistrate Judge of Instruction No. 1 and Dean of Alcalá de Henares, offers us a jurisprudence review of the 2nd Chamber of the Supreme Court.

 

We hope that these articles are of interest to you and provide a valuable and updated vision of the challenges and opportunities in the field of road safety, contributing to the discussion and progress in the field. We thank all the authors and collaborators for their dedication and effort in producing these high-quality works, as well as the reviewers and members of the Editorial Board and the Scientific Committee who have made it possible for this new edition to come to light.

 

We hope you enjoy our magazine.

 

Francisco Díaz Alcantud

CUGC Director