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Fall in number of vehicle inspection failures

exhaustMore than 614,000 vehicles failed their inspections last year, a 10.5% failure rate for the 5.8 million vehicles inspected in Portugal.

The National Association of Automobile Inspection Centers said that the main causes of vehicle inspection failures in 2016 were faulty lights and electrical equipment, dodgy steering, clapped out suspension and illegally bald tyres.

The association that represents the automobile inspection centers says between 2012 and 2015 the percentage of failures has been going down, from 13.34% to 10.58% in the three years.

The association’s president, Paulo Areal, says that inspections help "reduce the number of vehicles with mechanical problems that that could become a danger to all road users” and is pushing for mandatory inspection of anything mechanical that used the road, especially tractors, as a way of preventing accidents."

This failure rate means that of 5.8 million vehicles inspected in 2016, more than 614,000 were prevented from being used without first being fixed.