Almost 13,000 drivers caught speeding in a week

Falmost 13,000 speeding violations were recorded during the “Viaje Sem Pressa” campaign, held from 13 to 19 October.

The initiative brought together face-to-face awareness actions by the National Road Safety Authority (ANSR) and surveillance operations by the Public Security Police (PSP) and the Republican National Guard (GNR).

In a joint communiqué, those three authorities state that, between 13 and 19 October, the speed control recorded 5,404,840 radar-controlled vehicles and 12,994 speeding offencesbetween mainland Portugal and autonomous regions.

All in all, during the same period, they took place in the country 2.767 accidents13 fatalities, 50 serious injuries and 823 minor injuries.

Of this total, there were 2,634 accidents (95%), 13 fatalities (100%), 45 serious injuries (90%) and 799 minor injuries (97%).

In Madeira and the Azores, there were 133 accidents (5%), resulting in five serious injuries (10%) and 24 minor injuries (3%).

The assessment now concludes that under the jurisdiction of GNR there were 1,668 accidents (60%), 12 fatalities (92%), 34 serious injuries (68%) and 429 minor injuries (52%).

In the area of PSP, there were 1,099 accidents (40%), one fatal victim, 16 serious injuries (32%) and 394 minor injuries (48%).

Comparing with the homologous period of 2025, there were minus 85 accidents, plus eight fatalities, minus 13 serious injuries and minus 173 minor injuries.

Throughout the campaign, more than five hundred drivers and passengers received information on the risks associated with speed and how to make their journeys safer.

In a joint statement, the ANSR, GNR and PSP add that, “complementary to the actions carried out in the districts of Braga, Coimbra and Viseu, the campaign also had a reinforcement in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon, where the ANSR, GNR and PSP carried out, on the night of 12 to 13 October, two awareness-raising and surveillance actions at the tolls of Carcavelos da A5, and in the north access to the board of Ponte 25 de Abril”.

The aim of these complementary actions was to “aware the drivers to the importance of respecting the limits and adapting the speed to the conditions of the track”. The initiative was attended by the Secretary of State for Civil Protection, Rui Rocha, the President of ANSR, Pedro Clemente, the Deputy of the Operational Commander of GNR, Maj-Gen Joselino Gouveia Seabra Ferreira, and the Director of the Operations Department of PSP, Superintendent Manuel Gonçalves.

After this initiative, the National Supervisory Plan for this year provides for a final campaign, dedicated to alcohol, which will run from 3 to 9 November.