The map of Spain’s most dangerous roads improves, although there is still a very high percentage of kilometers with high or very high risk. In 2018, 12.2% of the kilometers of Spanish roads were considered as black or red dots when presenting a very high or high risk, respectively, of traffic accidents, according to theEuroRap study presented by the RACC.
In the last year, the study registered an improvement of 2.2 points in the sections of roads with more danger for drivers, going from 14.4% in 2017 to 12.2% in 2018. The improvement focuses on the kilometers with high risk, which went from 10% in 2017 to 8.1% this year, while the kilometers with the label of black spots due to the high concentration of accidents fell only three tenths, from 4.4% to 4, one%.
The improvement comes after three years of stagnation of the black and red points map due to its high accident risk. In the last seven years, the decrease has been more pronounced, falling from 20.7% to 12.2%. That percentage represents more than 3,000 kilometers with more chances of suffering traffic accidents.
List of blackheads
The autonomies that accumulate more dangerous kilometers are Aragón, catalunya and Asturias, with percentages of 35% and 16%. By province, the risk ranking on the roads is headed by Huesca, Teruel, León, Lleida and Salamanca. on the other hand, the provinces with safer roads with Valencia, Cantabria, Pontevedra, Ciudad Real and A Coruña.
The list of the 10 most dangerous black spots on Spanish roads coincide in that they are single-lane roads by direction of circulation. The points with more risk for drivers are in Ribadeo (Lugo), Vilaller (Lleida), Ripoll (Girona), Sacos (Pontevedra), Huesca, Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo), Cistierna (León), La Unión (Murcia) ), Monterroso (Lugo) and Navaleno (Soria).