No 1058 Monday 13th - Sunday 19th January 2025
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The Costa Blanca’s oldest ‘FREE’ English language newspaper - WITH THE LARGEST LOCAL CIRCULATION
A DECADE HELPING THE COMMUNITY his year marks a decade since the N332 road safety group was launched, marking 10 YEARS of helping the international community in Spain stay a little safer on the roads.
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So, with the idea of reducing the number of traffic offences and accidents due to the lack of knowledge of the Spanish traffic law, he decided to open a Facebook page called N332, the name of the main road he patrols on a daily basis.
N332 was originally the brainchild of a Guardia Civil Traffic Officer posted in Torrevieja, Francisco Javier Morales, who, after years patrolling the roads of the province of Alicante realised that foreign drivers often commit the same infractions and get involved in accidents simply because of applying regulations of their own countries, which are often different from those in Spain.
Francisco began to post a photo with a short text in English explaining what the driver did wrong to avoid others to do it again. The news about this new page run by a police officer spread quickly among the international residents, reaching 10.000 followers in less than one year.
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