The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, called today to extreme the precautions on the road during the next festive dates, in which the DGT foresees in Galicia 1.9 million trips. It did so the day before the start of the first of the three phases that make up Operation Christmas Traffic, which will last until midnight on Tuesday, January 6.

Pedro Blanco stressed the need for “all users of the roads, pawns, drivers, cyclists and motorcyclists, to put the five senses when we go to the road, with the objective of having, truly, a Good Festivities”.

The delegate recalled that on these dates there are especially adverse circumstances such as the succession of celebrations of different types and Christmas tourism combined with the shortage of hours of light and the most adverse weather conditions: “a host of factors ahead of which we have to scrupulously comply with the ABC of road safety: moderate the speed, use the belt and helmet and zero alcohol and drugs before getting behind the wheel.”

The delegate warned that at the moment the number of fatal accidents and deaths in Galicia is higher than that registered at these same dates last year: “Until yesterday we mourned on our roads the loss of 93 people in 88 fatal accidents, six victims and eleven more fatal accidents than at this point in 2024.” These figures break the trend that Galicia accumulated in summer and “tell us about the need to be more aware of the risks associated with driving and circulation on the roads,” said Pedro Blanco.

Operation Christmas 2025

The forecasts for this Christmas in Galicia indicate that the 1,945,000 vehicles will be reached between the afternoon of tomorrow, December 19, and the night of Reis day. The First Phase (between 19 and 25 December) will concentrate 742,000 trips; the Second Phase (between 26 December and 1 January) will move 674,000 vehicles on Galician roads. The third and final phase will run between 2 and 6 January and will be the one with the least registered movements, with a total of 485,000 vehicles planned. These forecasts are calculated by the Northwest and Cantabrian Traffic Management Center, which manages the roads from Galicia to Cantabria from its headquarters in A Coruña.

In addition, to these movements we must add those shorter movements, thousands, that are made daily to go to the leisure areas or the increasingly present, tourism linked to the Christmas decorations and lights.

To verify the safety of all these drivers, Operation Nadal 2025 Traffic will have the maximum available number of Civil Guards, 63 operators of the management center, 216 radars, 291 data collection stations, 45 meteorological stations, 359 variable message panels and 275 surveillance cameras, in addition to the Pegasus helicopter. Along with them, the road maintenance staff becomes relevant, especially in view of the existing snow and ice forecasts in the coming weeks. This raises the need to consult meteorological information permanently and be provided with winter chains or tires if there is a prediction of snow precipitation the drop in temperatures at our destination.