Driving Safely During Wildfire Season
Wildfires can affect roads in Spain with little warning. Learn how to stay safe, deal with smoke, respond to road closures and help reduce the risk during the summer months.
Wildfires can affect roads in Spain with little warning. Learn how to stay safe, deal with smoke, respond to road closures and help reduce the risk during the summer months.
Most accidents happen in poor light or bad weather. Knowing what to do — and what your insurance covers — can make the aftermath far less stressful.
Forest fires, or wildfires, can spread with alarming speed and unpredictable intensity, especially in dry, windy conditions, and once again this year, we have seen an increase in both the number of fires, and the severity.
In a July 2025 campaign, 96% of drivers testing positive for alcohol or drugs were detected via preventive controls. Over 4,234 cases were recorded, including 246 judicial referrals for alcohol and 18 for drugs.
Spain’s summer road safety update is here. Fatality figures, speed in deadly crashes, a drop in urban road deaths, and worrying drug and alcohol driving stats — all in this week’s N332 Driving in Spain podcast.
Spain’s July 2025 roads saw 112 fatalities across 101 fatal crashes—despite three zero-death days, safety device non-compliance and conventional road risk remain serious challenges.