“We will not become millionaires, and thus we will earn little more than we earn in the Guardia Civil.”

04/12/2025

Updated at 8:21 p.m.

From 1 January 2026, we will have to mandatorily report road accidents with Beacon V16a device created by two Galician Civil Guards: Jorge Torre and Jorge Juan Costas.

These two agents are the leaders in The development of this device, which, as the General Directorate of Taxes stated, will be the only valid way to warn of problems starting next year.

They met in the Civil Guard, but due to personal circumstances they left the Corps. Years later, they met again when they were in an “economically critical” situation and decided to start this business.

We at ABC have contacted them to try to shed more light on the doubts and fears of Spaniards about this device that we must carry in the car no matter what. Since January 1.

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