15 dead on the roads in the first phase of the Holy Week Traffic operation | Spain
The first phase of the Holy Week Traffic operation, which takes The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT). This figure is identical to that registered in Holy Week in 2024, when the operation ended with 27 people who lost their lives in traffic accidents. Traffic provides for these dates 15.8 million displacements, In its largest concentrates from Wednesday afternoon 16 until midnight on Monday 21, with a total of nine million movements.
The DGT has warned that in the last hours There have been three accidents in which vehicles circulated for the lanes of the opposite direction. The first was recorded in Arcos de la Frontera (Cádiz) at 22.00 at kilometers 25,500 of the highway (A-382). Three vehicles collided, one of them with a trailer, on the lanes in the direction of Jerez de la Frontera. Apart from the deceased man, there was a slight injured and another person was unharmed.
The second accident occurred on Thursday morning, in the M-50, in Madrid, in which two people have been injured. Agents of the Civil Guard Traffic Group investigate the causes in which the incident has been registered. The third has happened in AP-4, between Seville and Cádiz. This vehicle that circulated in the opposite direction was monitored by the Sevilla Traffic Management Center, announced in the variable message panels and communicated to the Civil Guard Traffic Group, who finally intercepted him.
Traffic has reiterated its message of “much prudence, permanent attention to driving and compliance with the standards ”, In a statement: « The behavior of each of the users of the road has direct consequences in the rest of those who share the same space. Road safety is a shared task in which we are all responsible. »
According to DGT data, 20% less displacements occurred on Wednesday. Of course, this change has had its incidence on Thursday morning, in which greater retentions have been experienced in the exits of large cities, with kilometer traffic jams in some cases. That has led traffic to enable additional lanes, to interrupt additions and slow vehicle lanes to improve fluidity and thus do not occur intertwined that could generate specific accidents and retentions.
At two in the afternoon, problems in the departures of Madrid on the North Highway (A-1) and that of the East (A-3) are recorded, at the height of Rivas-Vaciamadrid. There was also slow traffic in the Extremadura sense, at the height of Cazalegas (Toledo), in the A-5. The problems in Vizcaya were given in Mushizen, in the A-8, sense to Cantabria, for an accident, while in Catalonia there was slow traffic in access to Barcelona by the A-7 and the entrance to Tarragona, on the same way. Valencia had retentions in Buñol. In Andalusia, the withholdings were recorded at the exit of Seville towards Cádiz by the A-4.
