The metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona registers an estimated 15,000 victims of traffic accidents during 2023

The metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona will register a total of11,626 accidentsthey are going to leave 14,767 victims46 of which will be fatal. Així ho constanta l’estudi Victims of traffic accidents in the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona, carried out by the Metròpoli Institute for encàrrec of the AMB and published in the framework of the World Day in Memory of Traffic Victims. According to experts, the first figure represents 48% of the total number of victims in Catalonia and the second, 16% of the total number of dead people.

Sadly, the registered values ​​are noticeably lower than those expected before the pandemic, there is a new increase in the number of accidents, especially due to the fact that ferits greus. These have grown by 60% in the last four years.

The report also reveals a change in the territory’s number of accidents. The population of the city of Barcelona has been reduced, while the municipalities of the first metropolitan crown They have acquired more prominence: they account for 31% of the dead victims and 37% of the fatal and fatal victims.

Reduce the risk of motorcycle and bicycle accidents

Pel que fa a lesivitat, during the period 2009-2023, els motorcyclists i els vianants represent 46% and 29% of deceased persons, respectively, and 48% and 24% of deceased persons. In fact, the accident on a motorcycle (34 victims/million of displacements on a weekday), followed by the major road safety problem to the metropolitan area, all the darrers have decreased anys.

This decrease has also occurred in the accident rate of the bicycleparticularly outside the Catalan capital and its six connections. This improvement is due to the improvements of the local and metropolitan pedalable infrastructure and the general safety conditions that are enforced.