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Updated Sunday, March 31, 2024-12:45

  • The weather The storm 'Nelson' keeps 12 communities on warning this Sunday for rain, storms, wind, waves and snowfall

The General Directorate of Traffic asks for special caution in this

return of Holy Week due to

the bad weather and snow that affect fifty roads, including five of the main network:

the A-6

in Brazuelo, in León;

the A-62

in Villares de la Reina, in Salamanca, and in another section in Cañizal, in the province of Zamora;

the A-66

in Guijo de Ávila;

the A-1

in Santo Tomé del Puerto, in Segovia and its passage through La Serna del Monte in Madrid and

the A-52

in Cobreros, in Zamora.

The use of chains

is necessary

on dozens of conventional roads in Granada, Huesca, Ávila, Segovia, Salamanca, León, Cáceres and in the mountains of Madrid in the

ports of Navacerrada and Cotos

.

In

Castilla y León

, in

Ávila

a section of the AV-901 in Villanueva de Ávila is closed to traffic, and chains are required on the AV-100 El Barco de Ávila, AV-501 Navas del Marqués, AV-900 Ríofrío, AV -905 San Martín del Pimpollar, AV-913 Navarrevisca and AV-941 San Martín del Pimpollar.

Yellow level, in CL-510 Arevalillo, N-110 Villatoro and El Barco de Ávila, and the N-502 Menga and El Pico mountain passes. And green level in AV-501 Navalperal de Pinares, AV-900 Ávila, AV-905 San Martín del Pimpollar, AV-913 Villanueva de Ávila, AV-932 Santiago del Collado, AV-941 San Martín del Pimpollar and CL-505 Tornadizos from Avila.

In

León

, chains are required on LE-126 Encinedo and LE-142 Santa Coloma de Somiedo. And it is at yellow level LE-497 Billablino. And in

Segovia

, chains at SG-615 in San Idelfonso, green level at CL-601 in San Idelfonso and N-6 in El Espinar.

Closed to traffic

is located in

Salamanca

DSA-191 in Candelario and SA-203 in El Cábaco; with chains, DSA-180 in La Hoya; and on the green level A-62 Villares de la Reina, A-66 Guijo de Ávila and N-630 Montejo. And in

Zamora

, the ZA-103 in Galende is closed to traffic, according to the latest information update from the DGT on social networks.

25 dead

Since the beginning of this special Easter operation, on Friday, March 22 at three in the afternoon, and until 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, 25 people had lost their lives in accidents on interurban roads.

Precisely and due to the bad weather that has prevailed in almost all of Spain, there was a greater influx of drivers returning to their homes and

greater traffic jams on Saturday afternoon at the entrances to Madrid

.

The second phase of the special Easter operation began at three in the afternoon this Wednesday, being the most important in terms of travel volume and in which

9.6 million road trips

were expected until midnight on Monday, 1 April, a holiday in seven autonomous communities (Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Catalonia, the Basque Country, La Rioja, the Valencian Community and Navarra).