Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo has announced the installation of an automatic system that will connect the services of the AMET with the DGII and Customs fine systems to make them more effective. Montalvo said that this measure would make it easier to feed the database to establish and effectively collect the traffic fines. At present, hundreds of thousands of people have been fined for traffic violations, but have not bothered to pay them.
Montalvo said that interconnecting the systems is part of the new National Comprehensive Safety Plan. The measure also seeks to reduce the number of accidents caused by reckless drivers, many of who have already accumulated several fines.
Montalvo lamented the fact that the DR is currently the country with the second highest number of traffic accidents per capita in the world, according to the World Health Organization. So far this year, 1,306 people have been killed in traffic accidents.