Sixteen people have lost their lives and fifteen have been seriously injured in the thirteen mortal accidents recorded on the roads since the beginning of the May bridge, on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m., and until 20:00 on this Sunday, as a spokesman for the General Traffic Directorate (DGT) has advanced.
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Until midnight the special operation of the DGT will not conclude that at this time informs of specific retentions on the roads that direct Madrid such as the A-3 in Montalbo and Villares del Saz (Cuenca) and already in the Madrid region in the municipality of Arganda del Rey and in the A-1 in Robregordo or in the A-5 in Valmojado (Toledo).
In addition, several claims are complicating the circulation at 8:00 p.m. at the exit of Madrid by the A-6, in Galapagar; in Tarragona, in Ap 7 as it passes through the Amytlla de Mar, in the direction of Barcelona; in Toledo, in the A-5, in Talavera de la Reina to Otero; in Albacete, in the A 31, in La Gineta; in Valladolid, in the A-62 or in Geria towards the capital of the province.
Regarding the claims of the bridge, and as reported by a DGT spokesman, of these four and a half days of special traffic operation, Friday 2 was one of the most tragic with six deaths in three fatal accidents, including the one that occurred near Plasencia in which four people died in a frontal collision between two cars.
The beginning of the operation last Wednesday left two dead and a serious injury in two fatal accidents, in El Toboso (Toledo) and in Sandiás (Ourense), while on Thursday 1 they lost their lives on the roads four people in two sinister. One of the most serious occurred in Mallorca, on the Pollença Al Port de Pollença road, between a line bus and a group of cyclists.
Meanwhile, on Saturday two people died in many other accidents: one at the height of Gargallo (Teruel) in which a person has also been injured and has been hospitalized, and another in the Asturian town of Cangas de Onís. Until 20.00 on this Sunday, two other people in two accidents in Asturias and Malaga have left their lives.
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