Overview
- Coyote’s V Observatorio, published this week, reports Spain now has 3,621 speed radars and that the national traffic agency (DGT) installed 226 new devices in the past year.
- The mix of technologies has shifted sharply with section (tramo) radars up 86% over five years and traffic‑light cameras up 53% since 2021 while fixed radars rose 32%.
- Deployment is uneven: Catalonia, Andalusia and Castile and León hold the largest shares nationally while Galicia reached 234 radars and the province of Pontevedra grew to 68 devices after new DGT installations such as the VG‑20 unit in Vigo began issuing sanctions in April.
- Local authorities now manage a large share of controls in some regions, for example 147 of 255 radars in the Basque Country are municipal, and 44% of all devices are sited in urban areas rather than highways.
- Enforcement exposure rises in summer when detected fixed devices increase about 12% and mobile units about 29%, a combined 41% jump that raises the risk of fines and reflects authorities’ stated push to use automated systems to curb speeding and cut crashes.