The Andalusian autonomous community accumulates a total of 159 deaths on the roads of the region, a figure that represents 35% of those recorded in the same period of 2023, where the figure stood at 118 deaths. Andalusia thus continues to lead in this statistic and consolidates itself as the community with the most fatal accidents.
Thus, according to information from the General Directorate of Traffic, there were a total of 142 fatal accidents in the community until September 12, compared to the 107 accumulated in the same period of the previous year, which represents 33%. Andalusia is thus the community with the highest number of fatal accidents, accumulating 19.6% of the national total. Next comes Castilla y León, with 84 fatal accidents, and Catalonia with 85. As for deaths, the Andalusian region also leads the national ranking, with 19.7% of the total.
By Andalusian provinces, Grenade It is the one that has recorded the highest number of road accidents so far this year, with a total of 27 (14 more than in the same period in 2023) that have cost the lives of 29 people, compared to 13 the previous year. Next comes Seville, with 23 fatal accidents and 33 deaths, 14 more than in 2023. This year, in Malaga, there have been 23 accidents with 27 deaths, while in Jaén, around twenty people have died in 19 road accidents. In the case of Córdoba, the province has recorded so far this year a total of 16 accidents with fatalities, which amounts to 17, and in the territory of Huelva, 12 deaths have been recorded in separate accidents.
On the other hand, Almeria and Cádiz are the only provinces in Andalusia that have recorded fewer road deaths so far than the previous year. On the one hand, in Almeria Until September 12, 10 people lost their lives in road accidents, compared to 18 in the same period of 2023. And in Cádiz, the DGT records three fewer deaths so far, reaching a total of 11.
