Eight people have died this weekend in traffic accidents in Catalonia, five on the highway and another three on urban roads, a tragic balance that has been recorded precisely on the day in which the World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims.
Sources from the Servei Català de Trànsit have explained that in In the first fifteen days of this month of November, no deaths had been recorded. on the roads of Catalonia, in contrast to the chain of accidents that occurred on Saturday and Sunday.
In the early hours of this Saturday, two young people aged 20 and 25 died in Cambrils (Tarragona) when the vehicle in which they were traveling on the T-314 left the road, an accident in which Another young man was left in critical condition and a young woman was seriously injured.
Furthermore, a The motorcyclist also died this Saturday when he crashed into the large letters that at a roundabout announce the beginning of the municipal area of Cunit (Tarragona) while a woman died after being run over by a truck in the border town of La Jonquera (Girona).
The last of the fatal accidents that occurred this Saturday occurred at 9:30 p.m. in an urbanization in El Montmell (Tarragona), when a motorcyclist fell from the vehicle and died in circumstances not yet specified.
This Sunday they have the two occupants of a vehicle died in an accident recorded early in the morning on the highway AP-7 at the height of the Girona municipality of Vilablareixwhen a trailer hit them after they got out of the car they were traveling in due to a previous collision with a small truck.
The last fatal accident took place around eleven in the morning at kilometer 17.7 of the N-260 highway, in the municipality of Llançà (Girona), where A motorcyclist has left the road and died as a result of the fall.
119 dead on interurban roads
According to Trànsit data, this weekend’s victims include The number of people killed in traffic accidents this year on interurban roads rises to 119 Catalans, not counting those who have died on urban roads.
In Barcelona, entities of relatives of victims and prevention of traffic accidents have asked this Sunday, in an institutional event organized on the World Day of Remembrance for those who lost their lives on the road, that the administrations go “beyond campaigns.”
In the event, in which the Minister of the Interior participated, Núria Parlónand the councilor of Barcelona City Council, Albert Batlle. They have also attended associations such as ‘Stop Accidents’ and Traffic Accident Prevention, which have complained to the administration measures such as a special telephone number for victims and relatives, greater attention and advice about their rights, as well as eliminating from the Penal Code in these cases the concept of “crime of reckless homicide.”
“The campaigns help, but the work is immense (…) It must be internalized that you cannot drive a vehicle having drunk or taken psychoactive substances,” he said. Joan Puig-PeyTraffic Accident Prevention.
For her part, the Minister of the Interior pointed out at the event that “the lives of others have value, and so does ours” and has demanded “responsibility” from all citizens.
Parlón recalled the reform promoted by the executive of reduce the blood alcohol level in order to reduce accidentshas praised the preventive work of the Mossos d’Esquadra, and has stressed that drivers who break the rules due to the consumption of alcohol or drugs will face “the full weight of the law.”
In turn, Albert Batllealso wanted to highlight the work of victims’ associations and has emphasized the need for “everyone” to take responsibility when taking the car, since “Road safety is a shared responsibility.”
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