Spain's traffic department is gearing up for the first wave of summer traffic on Friday with around four million trips expected this weekend as Spaniards set off on their annual holidays.
Traffic-blighted Madrid is to see a new approach to cars in the city centre, according to a new City Hall plan to which a leading Spanish newspaper has had access.
Five teenagers from a youth football team were killed when their minibus crashed into a mechanical digger on a country road in southern Spain on Thursday night, officials said.
Spain saw its carbon dioxide emissions drop 12.6 percent in 2013, the third highest fall in the European Union. The news came on the same day as the World Health Organization issued a warning about the risks of air pollution.
Road deaths more than halved in European Union in the decade from 2001 to 2012 with Spain being the continent's greatest improver, figures released on Tuesday show.
Thirty-two people have died on Spain's roads during Holy Week celebrations, six more than last year, the country's traffic authority reported on Monday.
Spain's economic crisis and mass unemployment have had a surprise positive side effect: fewer traffic jams on the country's roads. But things may be changing.
A married couple from Barcelona has been charged for claiming that the husband’s deceased mother was behind the wheel of their cars when they committed numerous speeding offenses.
Engineers at a research centre in northern Spain have admitted using human bodies for their accident simulations because they can't afford the €150,000 ($207,000) a crash test dummy costs.
A Spanish judge has got himself into hot water after he said a driving school was within its rights to charge female learners more than their male counterparts.
Commissions of 30 percent of fines from radars and cameras at red lights in the Catalan town of Montgat have been revealed to be going to a private company, enraging local residents who claim that the cameras are unnecessary.
Spaniards are in their usual rush to take their summer holidays as official sources estimate 2.7 million vehicles will hit the road in the first 24 hours of August’s “operation exodus”.
A Barcelona policeman has been locked up for 18 months prison and slapped with a €400 penalty after he fined four tow trucks in "retaliation" after his own parked car was towed away.
Spain's national traffic authority is hoping a mobile phone app will help reduce road congestion when the annual surge in summer holiday traffic kicks off on Friday.
Shaving,carrying wild animals and watching DVDs while at the wheel are just three of the dangerous activities that Spanish police came across during a recent traffic safety campaign that targeted distracted drivers.
One of the biggest debates in Spain in recent times has nothing to do with corruption or home evictions or even the plight of Spain’s royals: it focuses instead on the use of the humble bicycle helmet.
Barcelona has the worst traffic in Spain with Thursday morning and the Friday after-work rush hour being the most excruciating times to be at the wheel.
