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10/05/2013
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Four sites are being monitored
Action was triggered due to recent accidents involving collective
RIO - Due to recent accidents involving buses in Rio - which since last April 2 left 13 dead - the state Department of Consumer Protection and Defense, through Procon RJ-triggered operation Russian Roulette in order to monitor the structural conditions and documentation of the collective that travels through the city streets. Since the early hours of Friday, 13 agents of the organ, divided into four teams, were sent to four garages bus companies. Until 8pm, 22 vehicles were sealed.
According to Procon, all buses in these garages are being inspected. Those who have problems in the documentation and poor conservation as bald tires and seats torn loose and are being withdrawn from circulation. However, the mechanical part, as the brakes are not undergoing evaluation.
- For the last events recorded in the city, we found that consumers are being harmed. Therefore, Procon is conducting this inspection, to see how is the condition of the fleet that runs through the city, starting with these companies, which had problems recently. If any irregularity is found in the documentation or the structural part, this vehicle will be sealed and will only be released if the company comply with all the requirements. Besides receiving fines, with the value calculated by Procon - said the director of surveillance Procon, Fábio Domingos.
Until the early morning, the Transport Vila Isabel, in Grajaú, North Zone, agents sealed off five buses that were with bald tires and documentation problems. On April 30, a company vehicle, which was the line 433 (Leblon-Vila Isabel), hit the dentist and triathlete Peter Nikolay, 31, in Ipanema, South Zone
In Paranapuan, on Governor's Island, North Zone, Procon found several irregularities in six buses, which were prevented from leaving the garage. Eight people died when a bus company, which made the line 328 (Castle x Banana plantation), fell Viaduct Brigadier Trompowski on Avenida Brazil, on April 2.
Another company inspected was the Blue Star. In the garage, in Vila Isabel, North Zone, agents sealed off six vehicles, all with problems in the documentation. A collective enterprise was involved in an accident in Ipanema, South Zone, on April 17. The driver lost control of the vehicle and walked up the sidewalk at Rua Visconde de Pirajá, injuring four people to achieve a newsstand and a doorman building.
Procon prohibited from inspection in a garage
In Campo Grande, in the West Zone, Procon agents were prevented from entering the garage company Jabour. A bus traffic, which made the line 853 (Vila Kennedy x Barra da Tijuca), ran over and killed a student Jonathan de Lima Mendes, 13, on the track side of the Avenue of the Americas, to São Conrado, Barra da Tijuca, West Zone.
According to the director, Fábio Domingos, staff Procon requested the support of the military police. But even so, they failed to perform the inspection. Thus, the agents were making a record of the occurrence of the event at the 35th Precinct (Campo Grande).
Around 7pm, with team building, Procon began to exercise oversight. Five vehicles, structural problems in the documentation, have been sealed.
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