Overview
- Deputies Patricio Peñalba Arias, Fabio Enrique López and Héctor Raúl Vargas filed a bill to replace Salta’s 0.0 g/L rule with a 0.5 g/L limit and a graduated penalty scheme.
- Under the draft, 0.5–1.0 g/L would bring fines of 300–800 fixed units, license retention and 6–12 months’ disqualification, with harsher penalties above 1.0 g/L and doubled sanctions when carrying minors or transporting passengers or cargo.
- The proposal has not been enacted and will be taken up when the Legislature opens in March, as victims’ group Estrellas Amarillas publicly opposed any relaxation of the current law.
- National enforcement remains intensive, with the road‑safety agency ANSV reporting about 537,000 checks in January and roughly 2,000 drivers removed for positive tests.
- Recent controls underscored safety risks: an alcoholimeter was saturated in Villa La Angostura, a Maipú driver exceeded 3 g/L after crashing into a perimeter fence, ANSV stopped two Route 9 drivers with minors aboard at 1.60 g/L and 0.76 g/L, a 19‑year‑old in Jujuy tested 1.65 g/L after colliding with a truck, and a drunk trucker on Route 34 fled after a crash.