Speed limits fall to 90 kilometres per hour after New Year
Friday, December 28, 2018 @ 5:18 PM
SPEED limits on secondary roads will drop to 90 kilometres per hour in the first few days of 2019 – it’s official.
Spain’s traffic authorities had considered reducing the limit from its current 100 kilometres per hour on main non-motorway inter-urban highways – most of which are single carriageway only – in line with other European countries such as Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Greece and Croatia, which are now at 90, and France, where it is 80, but is set to approve the law change today (Friday), making it a certainty.
The vast majority – 77%, in fact – of road crashes involving deaths are on secondary, single-carriageway highways, mostly due to either vehicles veering off the edge or being driven too fast.
According to the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) led by Pere Navarro and to interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, a 30-day stay of grace will be given for speed limit signs to be changed using giant stickers – the method used in 2011 when motorway speeds dropped briefly from 120 kilometres per hour to 110 in response to a spike in fuel costs.
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