The final balance of Road safety authorities report 25 fatalities and almost 6,000 accidents on Portuguese roads during the Christmas and New Year period. However, there were fewer accidents and injuries than in 2023.
Road safety authorities recorded 5,499 accidents on Portuguese roads during the Christmas and New Year period, which caused 25 deaths and 115 serious injuries, fewer accidents but more deaths and injuries than the previous year.
Between December 18, 2024 and January 2, 2025were registered 502 fewer accidents than in the previous yearbut the There were five more fatalitiesthe seriously injured plus eight and the slightly injured (1,692) plus one.
According to the data released, in relation to the same period of 2023/2024, the road accidents saw a 25% increase in the number of fatalities7.5% in the number of serious injuries and 0.8% in the number of minor injuries, but there was an 8.4% decrease in the number of accidents.
As 25 fatalities resulted from accidents in the districts of Aveiro (two dead)Beja (one dead)Braga (two dead)Castelo Branco (one dead)Faro (three dead)Guard (one dead)Leiria (three dead)Lisboa (six dead)Porto (one dead)Santarém (two dead)Setúbal (two dead) and Viseu (one dead).
In the six remaining districts of the continent — Bragança, Coimbra, Évora, Portalegre, Viana do Castelo and Vila Real — as well as in the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores, “the objective of zero deaths on Portuguese roads was achieved”says the statement.
In accidents with fatal victims, the misdirectionwhich involved eight light vehicles, seven motorcycles, a quadricycle and an agricultural vehicle.
There was still six collisionswhich involved nine light vehicles, two motorcycles and two bicycles, as well as three collisions, which involved the same number of light vehicles and which resulted in three deaths.
Of the 25 fatalities, 21 were male e four femaleaged between 19 and 76 years old, the data states.
