The return operation of the Constitution and Inmaculada Bridge is causing traffic jams and dense traffic throughout Spain's road network.
In the Community of Madrid, traffic jams have begun at the entrances to the capital on the A-1 (Burgos), A-3 (Valencia), and A-6 (A Coruña) highways, according to what sources from the Directorate have told Europa Press. General of Traffic (DGT).
The main traffic problems early this Sunday afternoon in the region were recorded on the A-1 as a result of an accident, with five kilometers of traffic jams near Somosierra. Likewise, this road presented traffic congestion in the entrance direction at the height of El Molar.
There were also traffic jams entering the capital on the A-3, in the Arganda del Rey area, and on the A-6, with about three kilometers of traffic jams in the Torrelodones area and another two kilometers in the Collado Villalba area.
Likewise, the A-5 (Extremadura) began to register significant traffic jams on the border of the province of Toledo with the Community of Madrid, near Valmojado.
The DGT has planned 7,830,000 road trips during the long weekend, which represents an increase of 17.13% compared to 2022 and 10.04% compared to 2017, the last year in which these festivities coincided with a Wednesday and a Friday as happens on this occasion.
The traffic regulation, planning and surveillance measures began at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 5, and will continue until midnight on Sunday, the 10th.
Some 112,000 vehicles had already returned from the Constitution Bridge between 12:00 and 17:00 this Sunday, 48% of the 250,000 that are expected to return to the Barcelona area until midnight, as reported by the Servei Català de Trànsit ( SCT).
The return operation, which ends next midnight, was brought forward to yesterday, when numerous drivers already chose to return due to the forecast that greater delays would be recorded today.
In statements to Betevé, the director of the SCT, Ramon Lamiel, explained that the return operation is expected to become especially complicated after 6:00 p.m. and has asked drivers to avoid peak hours to begin their trips.
The roads with the largest delays in the middle of the afternoon are the C-14 between Organyà and Ribera d'Urgellet (Lleida); the C-14 between Ponts and Oliola, also in Lleida; the C-16 between Bagà and Cercs, in Barcelona; the N-145 in Valls de Valira, Lleida; the C-55 between Castellgalí and Manresa, in Barcelona; the AP-7 in La Roca, Montornès and Castellví de la Marca, in Barcelona, and the C-17 between Malla and Vic, also in Barcelona.
On the occasion of this long bridge, the SCT has deployed a special device, which began at 3:00 p.m. on the 5th and will end next midnight, with the deployment of almost 1,800 Mossos d'Esquadra agents and some 1,600 controls police.
A total of six people have been injured in a multiple collision that occurred on the A-92 highway as it passes through Láchar (Granada), according to the unified emergency service 112 of Andalusia.
The accident occurred shortly before 1:15 p.m., when several witnesses called 112 to indicate that a van and several passenger cars had collided at kilometer 223 of the A-92, direction Granada, and that there were injured people who needed help. attendance.
The coordinating room immediately informed the Civil Traffic Guard, the Health Emergency Center (CES) 061, the firefighters, the Cijuela Civil Protection and the Machinery Park.
Health sources have confirmed to 112 that a total of six people have been injured, in principle and according to the first assessments, of a minor nature: three have been evacuated to the Traumatology Hospital, two to the Health Technology Park and one child under two years of age. to the Maternal and Child.
Three people, including a minor, have been injured during a multiple collision in which between eight and nine vehicles have been involved this afternoon on the Northwest Highway (A-6), heading towards Madrid and within the municipal area of Villalobos (Zamora).
Two of the injured people are a woman and a minor who suffered minor injuries and had to be transferred by ambulance to the Benavente Regional Hospital, sources from the 1-1-2 Castilla y León Emergency service have reported.
Subsequently, new medical assistance was requested for another woman, who initially also had minor injuries. The accident has caused traffic jams on the A-6 towards Madrid near Villalobos (Zamora).
