Eleven dead on the roads at the beginning of Holy Week

eleven people he deceased and others six have turned out wounds in the eight fatal traffic accidents that have taken place on Spanish roads since last Friday, the day on which the special device of the General Directorate of Traffic began for the holidays of Easter.

According to DGT sources, the worst balance is that of this Saturdaywith 7 deaths, 4 of which occurred in the same accident in which there were also two injured by a road exit with a car falling off a cliff on the LUP-2604 as it passes through Xove (Lugo).

First phase

The first part why is special device started at 3 in the afternoon last Friday of painday in which a collision of passenger cars on the A-375 near the Seville town of Coronil, as a result of which one person died and two were injured.

Ya el Saturdayapart from the one in Lugo, other three accidents on the road with fatalities, all with the presence of motorcycles involved.

In two of them the cause was an exit from the road, both on the RM-715 in Moratalla (Murcia), which ended with one death and one injured, and in Navalperal de Pinares (Ávila), on the AV-502, where there was another deceased.

Finally, the collision with a car caused the death of a motorist in Beizar (Asturias), on the AS-236.

It is domingo others have joined three deceased to the fatal balance on the road, the first in Beniel (Murcia) on the RMF-17 due to a car leaving the road, and another on the M-137 as it passes through the Madrid town of Madarcos, where a cyclist who died has also gone off track. Lastly, on a neighboring road in Sada (Coruña), one person has died and another has been injured when a road exit and construction machinery overturned.

The first part of the special device of the DGT for the Easter holidays, in which 4.3 million movements are expected by road, will conclude midnight of sunday april 2.

Second level

The second levelmore important due to the volume of trips, begin to from the Wednesday April 5 y will end on April 10Easter Monday, a holiday in the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, La Rioja, Navarra and the Basque Country.

forecasts

Traffic, which for this entire holiday period foresees 16 million tripshas called for prudence in driving, given that this same period of 2022 there were 25 fatal accidents in which 27 people lost their lives.