Spain's road safety success story not finished yet

Spain once had Europe's most dangerous roads. Now it's consistently in the top five or ten safest places to drive in the EU. Between 1989 and 2019, serious traffic accidents were reduced by 80 percent and Spain now has a much lower death rate on its roads  - 37 per million - than the European average of 51 per million in 2021.

Education, legislation, harsher sentencing, an effective points system, and the AVE - an efficient fast-train service that reduces the need for hundreds of thousands of long-haul car journeys a year. All these factors have helped lower the death rate significantly.

Between 2009 and 2022 fatal or serious accidents in Spain fell by 73 percent. ‌The nation aims to reduce road traffic deaths and serious injuries by a further 50 percent by 2030, in line with EU and UN objectives.