Generally, on the roads of Spain, there is nothing specific taking place this week. However, during the autumn weekends, an increase in traffic is expected on the main routes, national roads, motorways and dual carriageways towards rest areas and second homes, as well as leisure and recreation areas close to urban centres.
Generally speaking, the busiest times, and therefore times to try and avoid, are Fridays between 7pm and 9pm, Saturdays between 11am and 1pm, and Sundays between 6pm and 10pm, although on Sundays the traffic flow is reversed with vehicles heading back inland away from tourist locations.
Looking ahead to future specific campaigns, next week we will have the ROADPOL Focus on the Road campaign, ROADPOL being the European-wide traffic police network,
ROADPOL Operation Focus on the Road is a coordinated pan-European enforcement action by Traffic Police Officers from each ROADPOL member country and takes place on Europe’s roads addition to the daily national Traffic Police enforcement activities to combat distraction in road traffic.
In addition to speed, distraction is one of the most common causes of collisions. Although this is often thought, distraction in traffic is not such a modern problem at all. Of course, the focus has increasingly shifted to this due to the mobile phone and its use, especially by road users.
Specific to Spain, the next operation by the DGT, operated by the Guardia Civil, revolves around All Saint’s Day on 1 November, with the special operation running from 30 October to 3 November across the country.
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