Overview

• Urban traffic fatalities in Spain fell 6% to 488 in 2024, according to the Dirección General de Tráfico.
• The DGT attributes the reduction to 30 km/h limits on single-lane streets and the introduction of new speed-enforcement radars.
• Pedestrians, motorcyclists, cyclists and e-scooter users accounted for nearly 80% of urban traffic deaths last year.
• Safety-equipment non-use remained high at 28%, including 14 of 18 cyclists unhelmeted and 42% of car occupants without seat belts.
• Electric scooter fatalities jumped 62% to 13 deaths, making them the only vehicle category to rise and prompting regulators to draft a helmet mandate for riders.