After almost 9 years of legislative discussion, the National Congress passed into law the project for Chile to have an Automated Center for the Treatment of Infractions (CATI), which consists of a network of devices, duly marked in the control areas, which will be responsible for the detection of excessive speed and the notification of fines to offenders.
The initiative will be an important tool to automate auditing, which will allow Chile to make a leap and match the procedures available to OECD countries.
“The creation of this Automated Center for the Treatment of Infractions will allow us to ensure that traffic laws are effectively complied with and thus address a second pandemic that we face. Every year 2,000 people die in our streets due to road accidents,” said the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Juan Carlos Muñoz.
He added that “we estimate that this deterrent tool will prevent 600 of our compatriots from dying every year. That’s what we have in hand and that’s what we’ve approved.”
In Chile, on average, five people die every day as a result of traffic accidents and annually about 60,000 are injured, even ending many of them with some degree of disability for life.
Additionally, 29% of the people who die in this type of events are related to speeding, this being an aggravating factor, considering that in the last decade reckless speed and loss of control of the vehicle is the main cause of deaths in the country.
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