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Alicante and Valencia urban traffic accident black spots

By Cathy Elelman • Published: 20 Nov 2019 • 16:30

RANKINGS: An Alicante road is ranked as sixth worst in Spain for serious urban traffic accidents. CREDIT: Shutterstock

ONE road in Alicante and two in Valencia are ranked among the top 15 urban traffic accident black spots in Spain.
The Avenida de Denia in Alicante at the tunnel entrance level with number 75 is listed in sixth place nationally for the highest concentration of serious traffic accidents by the Linea Directa Foundation.
Avenida del Cid in Valencia level with number 150 is named as eighth worse and Avenida Blasco Ibañez de Valencia in the area of Calle Marino Blas de Lezo is in 12th spot.
The foundation analysed 500,000 urban and inter-urban accidents registered by the General Directorate of Traffic between 2013 and 2017 and more than 70,000 serious accidents attended to by Linea Directa in which those involved were unable to continue driving and in many cases suffered injuries.

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Cathy Elelman

Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.

Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.

Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.

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