Melilla has fulfilled more than 85% of the actions of the Road Safety Plan for the year 2024, as explained by the Local Head of Traffic, José Carlos Romero. “Of the 87 actions covered by the plan, 74 have been completed,” he said.

The Government Delegation hosted this morning the Melilla Traffic and Road Traffic Safety Commission, which has monitored the degree of compliance with the Road Safety Plan that this body approved last year for 2024.

A Commission in which the Road Safety Plan for this year 2025 has also been approved, which, as explained by Romero, remains in the same structure as previous plans, and which are structured in five major actions: educational, informative, formative, surveillance and control campaigns, and actions in the field of sustainable mobility.

Slight decrease in accident

Regarding the accident, Romero has detailed that there have been 413 traffic accidents with victims in 2024 in our city that have caused a total of 513 victims: 1 deceased, 12 seriously injured and 500 slightly injured.

The Local Head of Traffic has explained within the term victim the following distinctions are contemplated: “Deceased”, “wounded hospitalized”, who require more than 24 hours of hospitalization, and “not hospitalized” or “slightly wounded”, who require health care are not in hospitals more than 24 hours.

Romero has detailed that the deceased was the driver of a motorcycle and that the 12 seriously injured belonged to the group we call ‘vulnerable’. “We understand as vulnerable those who do not travel aboard a tourist or a truck, that is, that practically the body is its own body,” he said.

Despite the fact that in 2024 there were 25 traffic accidents with fewer victims, Romero stressed that “we can never say that data is better as long as there are traffic accidents and as long as there are victims, because we can never talk about good data, but data that improves something from the previous year.” Thus, he has made it clear that “they are always manifestly improved data”.

Shared responsibility

José Carlos Romero has stressed that “most accidents occur because of the human factor”, and although drivers are the majority group, other types of users such as pedestrians or passengers can cause traffic accidents.

“I believe, and I have said it many times, that a simple compliance with the traffic rules, which affect us all, would make these accident figures decrease very significantly and would be much lower,” he said.

In this regard, he stressed that, although Road Safety is led by the General Directorate of Traffic and the Administration, it is “a shared responsibility that affects each and every one of us”.

“Simply complying with a traffic rule, crossing a crossing, a road through a pedestrian crossing, not driving with alcohol or drugs, not using the mobile, using the helmet, the safety belt, would mean that either there would be no accidents or in the event that they occur, the consequences of these accidents would decrease considerably in terms of their severity,” he said.