217 km/hour in 80 limit by new driver By h.b. - Jan 14, 2009 - 7:14 AM
An 18 year old new driver in Lugo has been caught while was driving his Renaul Clio Sport by a traffic speed trap driving in an 80km/hour limit at 217 km/hour.
His licence did not last for long, it has been withdrawn for two years and the driver also has to carry out 60 days community work and pay a fine of 1,200 €.
The driver was detected by Guardia Civil's radars of A-8 and Guradia Civil called his improudence as a road savagery.
11 provinces remain on alert for winter weather in Spain By h.b. - Jan 14, 2009 - 7:08 AM
The famous Cibeles statue in the centre of Madrid, in the snow - Photo EFE
The situation will ease across the country today as temperatures start to rise.
11 provinces across the country remain on alert today out of the 24 placed on snow alert yesterday as the cold front continues bringing more snow to some areas of Spain.
The coast of Galicia continues on yellow alert for high winds. Madrid yesterday saw fresh snow, just four days after the chaos brought to the capital last Friday. This time the authorities were prepared, roads were salted and the snowfall was more modest. The Madrid region used 30 snowploughs as temperatures fell to -12 in some areas of the sierra. Several schools were closed yesterday, across the nine provinces of Castilla y León affecting 18,500 pupils.
Alerts are in place this morning in Castilla y León, Cantabria and Asturias for low temperatures and in Jaén and Granada were fresh snow could fall today.
A new front will affect the west of the peninsular on Thursday, but it will not reach the centre of the country as the weather finally calms and temperatures start to rise.
This piece of news talks about the snowstorm and rainstorm that there are in Spain in the last week. Explain that day to day the temperature becomes better but still last the alert in some province of Spain. For example, Galicia today is in yelow alert for this weather that lies ahead of us. In Jaén and Granada could snow and some provinces of nord-oest of our country are in alert for the low temperatures. Next Thursday will be a new front, but won't be worse than last.
