The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, reported that today at 3 p.m. begins in Galicia the Special Traffic Operation of Holy Week, in which a total of 1,586,000 displacements are planned throughout Galicia, of which 484.00, 30% of the total, will be in the province of A Coruña. A campaign that is marked by the increase in accidents in the community at the start of the year with 12 deaths on the roads of the province and 26 in Galicia, “an unacceptable figure that shows the great need to raise awareness of road safety to prevent more accidents on our roads,” said Rivas.
This operation of the General Directorate of Traffic will take place in two phases, the first that begins today and ends this Sunday, March 24 and a second, "more important than the previous phase by volume and vehicle displacements" that starts on Wednesday, March 27 and ends on Monday, April 1.
The deputy delegate of the Government, who was accompanied in the act by the provincial head of Traffic in A Coruña, María Victoria Gómez, and the Chief Commander of the Traffic Subsector of A Coruña, José Ángel Corral, recalled that in last year’s campaign, Galicia was the community in which accident rates increased the most with respect to the previous year, in particular, 5 deaths were recorded, 4 more than in 2022, so she called for prudence “and not to incur practices or habits that put driving capacity at risk, especially in one of the most conflictive dates of the same year.”
The campaign
In order to guarantee road safety and facilitate mobility and fluidity on the roads, the DGT has during these days the maximum availability of means, both technical (speed control radars, helicopters and drones, cameras for the control of the use of the mobile and the security belt) and human.
Traffic forecasts a total of 1,586,000 trips throughout Galicia, two out of three in the second phase of the operation. Of these, 484,000 will be in the province of A Coruña; 523,000 in Pontevedra; 253,000 in Lugo and 326,000 in Ourense.
In addition, during these days, traffic management and regulation measures will be implemented, such as the installation of reversible lanes that facilitate the movement of entry or exit from urban centers according to needs, the paralysis of works or restrictions on certain goods vehicles, in specific sections and hours.
María Rivas took advantage of her speech to highlight the Government’s commitment to improving road safety in the community, both through investments and awareness campaigns “all with a single objective: to reduce deaths in traffic accidents to zero”.