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Holy Week leaves 32 dead in traffic accidents, five more than in 2022

2023-04-10T16:28:50.436Z


The second phase of the return operation concludes this Monday, a holiday in six autonomous communities


Traffic accidents have caused the death of 32 people during the Easter holidays, the highest number since 2017, according to a first balance of the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT).

This is provisional data, since the return operation, which is divided into two phases, does not conclude until midnight this Monday.

This is because in six autonomous communities —Catalonia, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, La Rioja, Navarra and the Basque Country— today, Easter Monday, is considered a public holiday.

The 32 fatalities are five more deaths than the data registered last year.

During this Monday there have been several fatal accidents on the roads.

In Bilbao, a driver has lost control of his car and has overturned the BI-636 as it passed through the Biscayan capital.

The man died this morning and his companion was injured, for which she had to be transferred to the Basurto hospital.

In León, he has overturned a vehicle around nine in the morning whose driver has also died.

The incident occurred on the A-60 motorway in the Leonese term of Valdefresno.

And in Valencia, a 53-year-old Civil Guard Traffic officer has died when he was on duty after colliding his motorcycle with a vehicle on the CV-415, near the municipality of Turís, around eleven o'clock the morning.

In 2022, 27 people died in traffic accidents during these dates, so the provisional figure for 2023 has already exceeded that of last year by 18.5%.

The Easter holiday period is one of the most complicated, due to the increase in trips with similar origins and destinations and made on the same days and times.

Last weekend was marked by long delays on the highways, with traffic jams lasting several hours, mainly at the accesses to Madrid.

The director of the DGT, Pere Navarro, warned in an interview with EL PAÍS that accidents during Holy Week occur on short journeys, not on long journeys, and that they usually coincide with holiday destinations, "where the The driver trusts himself and relaxes the driving rules”.

The campaign has focused on alcohol as a risk factor in traffic accidents under the slogan “Alcohol lies to you.

Only 0 has 0 consequences.”

The DGT warns that driving under the influence of this drug is one of the main causes of road accidents, being present in one in three accidents.

Traffic has also stressed the obligation to wear a seatbelt and has done so through an original campaign in which it launches personalized messages with proper names, such as this: "Carmen, put on your seatbelt", which can be read on information panels of the roads.

The DGT begins to use the names of people to launch their messages on information panels pic.twitter.com/ArByEiZt0z

– SocialDrive (@SocialDrive_es) April 1, 2023

The first phase of the special Traffic device, with 4.3 million planned journeys by road, started on Friday, March 31 at 3:00 p.m. and ended at midnight on Sunday, April 2.

The second began on Wednesday the 5th and will end at midnight this Monday.

The DGT forecasts were for 16 million total journeys by road.

Last year 15.8 million were registered, the highest figure for a special Easter week operation since records were kept (2008).

Source: elparis

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