The Traffic Police issued an average of 13 speeding tickets per day, or nearly one every two hours, during the first 90 days of the year, according to an April 10 announcement. In total, officers handed out 1,173 tickets for speeding on roads during this period.
This focus on speed enforcement comes as excessive speed remains a leading cause of road deaths. Martín Sánchez Agüero, director of the Traffic Police, said that between 2022 and 2025 it was the main cause of fatalities and has already resulted in 66 deaths in the first quarter of this year.
“We are working hard on this behavior that causes so much tragedy. Just during Holy Week, which began at the end of March, we issued 474 fines for speeding. If we look at the first quarter from another angle: for each person who died (66) due to excessive speed, we issued 18 tickets for that reason,” Sánchez Agüero said.
The Traffic Police urge drivers to adopt more responsible habits and not make it a routine to leave late and then exceed speed limits to get to work. They also warn against taking advantage of low traffic at night or early morning hours to drive faster or participate in illegal races.
Sánchez Agüero also cautioned against using holiday trips as an excuse for reckless driving: “Even less should you take a trip—like happened during Holy Week—as an opportunity to accelerate too much when it should be a chance to travel calmly and enjoy not only your destination but also your journey.”
Regarding penalties by category: Fifty-four drivers were fined ¢363,000 and received six points on their license for driving over 120 km/h; they must complete—and pass—a re-education course before renewing their license. Another group of 221 drivers faced fines of ¢245,000 and four points on their license for exceeding speed limits by at least forty kilometers per hour—for example, traveling over one hundred kilometers per hour in a sixty zone. Three hundred seventy-six drivers exceeded limits by thirty kilometers per hour or more and were fined ¢123,000 each. Finally, five hundred twenty-two motorists surpassed maximum speeds by twenty kilometers per hour and received fines totaling ¢61,000 each within the first ninety days.
