Operation of the Todos los Santos Bridge ended this year with nine fatal accidents on interurban roads, killing ten people and injuring four others. It is the preliminary balance of the DGT of the five days, excluding the areas of the Basque Country and Catalonia where no fatal accidents have been recorded. Traffic registered 6,519,135 long-distance journeys, almost 30% more than last year when 5,031,317 were counted.
The number of fatalities is lower than that of the same bridge in 2021, which was extended by another day and ended with 15 accidental deaths, five fewer than on the same dates in 2019 – the last comparable year since 2020 The restrictions due to the Covid pandemic prevented much of inter-provincial mobility. Among those killed this year are six vulnerable users: three motorists, two pedestrians and one cyclist. The breakdowns occurred mainly on conventional roads (eight) and only one on the motorway.
The first of the registered fatal accidents occurred this Friday in Fortuna (Murcia) with one dead after exiting a tourist road. On Saturday, another accident was registered in La Coronada (Badajoz) with one dead and three injured due to the head-on collision of two cars. Sunday was the worst of the day, with three fatal accidents: one in Narón (A Coruña), with one dead after a car went off the road; another in Tolox (Málaga), also with one deceased because a motorcycle went off the road; and a third in Velliza (Valladoild) where two people, a father and a son, were killed by a car. This Monday, a motorcyclist died in a head-on collision with a truck in Felanitx (Mallorca). Already on Tuesday, two other people died in separate accidents in Quintana del Puente (Palencia) due to the exit of a cyclist and in Lezuza (Albacete) where one man lost his life and another was seriously injured late at night.
Traffic this Wednesday also released accident data for the entire month of October, when 87 fatal road accidents were recorded, killing 94 people, 12 fewer than in 2019. The figures are related to a slight increase in trips (1, 8% more) with 36 million long-distance trips.
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