10 Sep, 2017 @ 09:34
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Summer road deaths down by over 10%, but hundreds still killed

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SUMMER 2017 saw a fall in the number of motorists killed on Spanish roads. Traditionally the busiest period of the year, the DGT reported that there were 224 deaths in July and August, 31 less than in 2016 and a 12 per cent decrease from the same period the previous year.

In July there were 121 fatalities from 110 accidents while in August 103 people died in 96 accidents.

Spanish interior minister, Juan Ignacio Zoido, said: “The data presented, despite being better than last summer, is not sufficient with the death of a single person in a traffic accident.”

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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