After finding out about several traffic accidents on the roads, the Bolivian Police took action on the matter and set up a WhatsApp line, for users to report speeding or any irregularity during trips interdepartmental and interprovincial. The number to which the population can communicate is the 71280618.
“We set up a WhatsApp line (+591 712-80618) with the aim of being a means of communication between travelers and the Bolivian Police, through which traffic accidents can be reported, speeding and other irregularities inside the buses”wrote the Vice Minister of Citizen Security, Roberto Ríos, on his social networks.
In the same way, through the Facebook page of the Bolivian Police, said information was disseminated, in which it can be read that users of buses or other means of transport may report these events through the WhatsApp line, just sending an audio, a photo or video.
Ríos confirmed this information and pointed out that the enabled line will receive audio, video and images of the complaints, so that they can be intervened and thus protect the safety of users and the general population.
In conjunction with this new measure, the uniformed officers verify that the vehicles have the Mandatory Traffic Accident Insurance (SOAT), the necessary implements in case they need to provide assistance and that they have the appropriate biosecurity measures.
In the same sense, the Transit Operational Unit carries out the corresponding work within the framework of the Comprehensive Plan “For a Better Bolivia” in bus terminals throughout the country to control travel authorizations in the case of minors.
In this regard, the authority pointed out that an interdepartmental transport driver was penalized for exceeding the permitted speed limit on the La Paz – Oruro highway, the same one where at least three accidents have occurred in recent days.
“According to reports, the bus driver was going at 120 kilometers per hour, a speed prohibited by the Traffic Code, becoming a risk to the safety of passengers and other road users at that time”Rios explained.
