The Special Holy Week Traffic operation has been paid with 26 people killed in and interurban roads, as this special surveillance device has been reported on Tuesday, it was developed from Friday, April 11 to 00.00 on Monday 22. The figure is a minimum decrease, of only a less fatal victim, compared to the 27 deceased in the same operation of 2024, although the movements recorded on the roads have risen about 8.4% to the previous year:
The DGT has made an analysis of accidents and its typology. By road class, there has been a predominance of deceased on conventional roads – only lane in the direction – where eight out of 10 fatal victims have been recorded, while two deaths have been recorded less compared to 2024 on highways and highways. By type of accident, frontal collisions (three more than in 2024) and side and frontolateral collisions (two) increase. However, road outputs are reduced with three less deceased.
Of the 26 dead, 12 belong to the so -called vulnerable users: eight motorists, two pedestrians and two cyclists. The number of deaths in cars (two more) is also increased, so that this means of transport becomes the most dead. By ages, (nine deaths compared to five last year), which also makes it the group with the highest number of deaths. The worst hours for accidents have been between 14.00 and 19.59, with 10 fatalities, two more than in 2024.
The non -use of security systems has also had a great incidence in this Holy Week operation: according to the data provided by the DGT. Sunday, April 13 was the day that the most fatal victims occurred, with seven deaths. By autonomous communities: Catalonia is the region with the highest number of people deceased with 5 fatalities, in addition to being the one that increases the most with respect to last year (+4). In seven autonomies (Principality of Asturias, Extremadura, Galicia, Basque Country, La Rioja and Ceuta and Melilla) no fatal victim have registered.
Traffic has recalled that the information used to prepare these reports is based on the first 24 hours since the incident is produced and that “it is likely to be modified later, when the testing equipment of the traffic police carry out the timely investigation in depth of the accident”: “that is why this information must be considered entirely provisional”.
So far 307 people have died on the roads, always according to DGT data.
