More than 30 professionals and institutions of the road field receive the Medal of Honour of the AEC
4 June 2012
Also will receive the same distinction the agent of the Mossos d'Esquadra To.S.B., the one who the past 10 October suffered a fall of his motorcycle when it headed to to loan help to a tourism that found in situation of risk in the motorway B-23. In the accident, the agent of the Catalan autonomic police suffered grave wounds of which still finds convaleciente.
Beside them, other 30 people and institutions will be awarded with the Medal of Honour of the Road.
With this act, the AEC pretends to surrender homage and offer a public recognition to those people and institutions whose path has been or is intimately related with the road infrastructures in his wider conception. People and institutions that work by some safer roads and of quality from the bodies of hygiene of the State, like the two agents mentioned, or from other fields like the investigation, the teaching, the company, the administration and even the volunteering.
The ceremony of delivery of the Medals of Honour of the Road will take place next Wednesday 6 June, to the 12 hours, in the School of Engineers of Ways, Channels and Ports, in Madrid.
The awarded have been selected of go in more than a hundred of candidates proposed by diverse organisms linked to the road: public servicys with competition in road infrastructures and traffic (General Steering of Roads of the Ministry responsible for public works and of the distinct autonomous communities, provincial deputations, cabildos and consells insular; General Steering of Traffic, Servei Català of Trànsit, Steering of Traffic of the Basque Government…), universities, educational centres and of investigation, sectorial associations and private companies.
In this year 2012, will distinguish with the Medal to the International Merit to the Viceministro of Transports of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah To the-Mogbel, in recognition to his remarkable efforts for improving the roads of his country, as well as by his defence of the road interests to scale world-wide in his quality of president of the International Federation of Roads (International Road Federation, IRF).
