- The Government delegate and the Provincial Head of Traffic have presented today a special campaign of control and surveillance in this type of roads, in which fatal accidents increased by 80% in 2022
- The month of April concentrates 47% of fatal accidents in the Region of Murcia so far of the year
- From today until next Sunday, 200 agents of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard will control around 20,000 vehicles
May 8, 2023. The delegate of the Government, Caridad Rives, accompanied by the Provincial Head of Traffic, Virginia Jerez has presented this morning a new campaign of surveillance and control on conventional roads, roads in which 53% of the deaths in traffic accidents have been recorded so far this year in the Region of Murcia.
“Of the 15 fatalities that have occurred on our roads in 2023, seven have been on this type of conventional roads, which highlights the importance of this type of preventive campaigns to adequately raise awareness among drivers,” explained Rives during the presentation, which took place at RM-423, in the municipality of Fortuna.
47% of the fatal accidents recorded in the Region of Murcia in 2023 occurred in the month of April, with 71% of deaths that were vulnerable users, including three motorcyclists and two pedestrians.
Virginia Jerez has specified that between 75 and 80% of the interurban roads of our Region are conventional roads. “They are two-way routes, and that is especially dangerous in certain behaviors, such as overspeeding, anti-regulatory overtaking or the incorporation of this type of route, and that is what we are going to monitor in a special way during this week,” he said.
In this sense, it is in this type of roads where it is most efficient to intervene on speed limits, because, with small decreases, a great improvement in safety is achieved.
During these days, two hundred agents of the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard will control about 20,000 vehicles that circulate through interurban roads of the Region of Murcia.
In 2022, the accident rate in roads of this type increased by 80% compared to 2021, and went from 15 to 27 people who died.