The heavy rainfall brought by DANA during its passage in the province of Malaga led the General Directorate of Traffic to cut the route. A-7057 at the height of Seasonin Malaga.
As the DGT indicates on its website, the road remains completely closed in both directions from kilometer 2.7 to kilometer 2.8. As they detailed, the reason for the cutoff and traffic ban is that the road is flooded due to bad weather.
The Mobility area of Malaga City Council reported at 7:30 a.m. through its account on the social network A-7054.
⚠️ 7:30 a.m.: Access to Málaga from Cártama via the A-7054 is cut off to traffic.
– Malaga Mobility Zone (@movilidadmlg) October 30, 2024
On the other hand, although yesterday Tuesday the rains caused the closure of the A-357 in the municipality of Casarabonela (Málaga), of the secondary road A-343 in Casablanquilla (Málaga) in both directions and of the MA-3404 highway at kilometer 1.2 in Arroyo Car (Málaga), also in both directions, traffic has already been restored in each of them.
This Tuesday, intense rains were recorded in the province of Malaga, which exceeded 100 liters per square meter in various points and reached 155 liters in the Paredones dam (Álora). Precisely in the municipality of Álora, around 16 people had to be saved from his home after the Guadalhorce River overflowed.
The Guadalhorce River also overflowed during its passage Cartamadragging cars and flooding farms and homes. Several people had to be rescued after climbing onto the roof of their house to escape the rising river.
Yellow alert in Malaga
The yellow alert in Malaga due to heavy rains has been extended until 9:00 p.m. this Wednesday, October 30. The threat of heavy rainfall affects the capital, the Costa del Sol, Guadalhorce and Ronda. They could fall, according to forecasts from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), up to 15 liters per square meter concentrated in a single hour.
