The RACC Mobility Club has presented the 21st edition of annual Crash Risk Mapping, showing that thirteen state highways in Spain account for 52 per cent of the kilometres with a high or very high risk.

The 25,743 km assessment of the government-owned State Road Network (RCE), completed using the iRAP Methodology for the 2021-2023 triennium, identifies the stretches of interurban road with the highest risk of a serious or fatal crashes occurring, assessed in relative terms according to the number of vehicles travelling on them.

The results show:

• 11 per cent of the kilometres of the RCE present a high or very high risk for drivers of suffering a serious or fatal traffic crash.
• The top 10 sections with the highest risk correspond to conventional, single carriageway roads with one lane in each direction.
• The risk index on conventional roads is four times higher than the risk index on high-capacity roads.
• The observed evolution of the crash figures for the Spanish road network as a whole highlights the difficulty of achieving the ten-year objective of reducing the number of people killed in traffic crashes by 50 per cent by 2030.

Overall, 3,526 sections of the RCE have been analysed, representing 25,743 km in length. The RCE accounts for 16 per cent of the length of Spanish roads, and channels 53 per cent of total traffic. A total of 3,510 crashes resulting in fatalities or serious injuries occurred on the RCE in the three-year period 2021-2023, of which 1,133 were fatal crashes resulting in 1,257 fatalities, and 2,377 were serious crashes resulting in 3,137 serious injuries.

In this year’s edition, released in January, the processing has been revised (from 1,395 to 3,526 sections) and therefore the results are not directly comparable with those of previous editions when analysed in disaggregated form.

For more information on the study and results, click here (in Spanish).

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