2023-04-28 19:50:06
This Friday has started the May bridge in Spain. The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) anticipates that about 6.5 million trips by road since the special device began at 3:00 p.m. today. It will last until midnight on May 1, although in the Community of Madrid the operation will continue until midnight on Tuesday, May 2, as it is the community holiday.
Many citizens will take the opportunity to travel to their places of origin, others, to their second homes, and there will be some who will take advantage of these days to take a vacation, either visiting friends or relatives, places they have not been before or, with the heat atypical that the country is experiencing this week, taking a few days at the beach. In general, highways will be the busiest public roads, but it is possible that many opt for conventional roadways. But they must take into account Which are the most dangerous roads in Spain and where there have been more accidents in recent years to be even more careful when driving.
Where are the most dangerous roads in Spain?
Spain is the third country in the world with the highest number of kilometers between dual carriageways and motorways, tripling its length since 1990. For this reason, the DGT works every day to increase road health and improve infrastructure and traffic, which has influenced the reduction in the number of victims. Even so, there continues to be a large number of dangerous sections in which a good number of the accidents recorded in our country take place.
The RACE (Royal Automobile Club of Spain) released in a report the main data and conclusions of the Danger Index of the State Highway Network, after compiling all the data on accidents recorded on Spanish roads between the years 2019 and 2021. According to the report, the standard profile of the most dangerous road in Spain is about a conventional highway, with a single carriageway, with intersections at the same level and with a level of traffic of less than 10,000 vehicles per day. In other words, it is a long way from a highway or motorway, which tend to be more crowded.
In total, the data on accidents recorded in 25,100 kilometers of the national road network. Almost 14% of the sections of the network with a single carriageway have High or Medium-high Risk Indices, compared to 0.37% of the sections with two carriageways. For example, two of the most dangerous sections are located on the N-340 in Granada (between kilometers 296.4 and 312.9) and another on the N-345 in the province of Murcia (between kilometers 0 and 7, 2), which repeat among the most dangerous since 2019.
Regarding the Spanish Autonomous Communities, La Rioja, Catalonia and Asturias are the regions with the highest percentage of roads with high risk. Besides, The study explains that the N-634 of Cantabria, between kilometer points 232.8 and 243, is the road with the highest risk of suffering a serious accident, followed by the N-340 (Andalusia), N-230 (Catalonia), N-345 (Murcia), N-234 (Aragon), N-323 (Andalusia), N-331 (Andalusia) and N-122 (Castilla y León).
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