Granada is within the Top 100s but it's not anything to feel pleased about because we're talking about dangerous roads
There are four sections of road on the list where most biker accidents occur, according to the DGT (Traffic Department). They are easy to locate because the DGT puts a special roadsign, which you will have seen if you have gone up the Cabra Montés road above Otívar (A-4050).
The DGT places dangerous, road sections in this category based on the number of accidents involving motorbikes within the last five years and the number of dangerous curves along it.
One of them is on the A-348 Lanjarón-Ugíjar (which finally reaches Almería). Another is between kilometre points 20.86 and 23.12 on the A-395, which connects Granada to the Sierra Nevada.
Then there is the GR-3204, between Restábal and Los Guájares, specifically between kilometre points 12.7 and 15.29.
Finally, there’s the A-4050 (Carretera de la Cabra) between kilometre points 35.23 and 37.65, which starts above the TV/Phone masts where paragliders take off from.
So far this year there have been 293 motorbike accidents on the province’s roads, producing 264 people slightly injured and 30 seriously injured. Five people died.
(News: Granada, Andalucia)
Fred: Having ridden a bike in Spain for 40 years, the main cause of accidents is being on the middle of the road on a blind bend, especially when riding in groups because the first one gets round and those following deduced nothing is coming and encroach further.
That’s a good point to remember as a car driver on the Cabra road: if you see a back come round a bend before you, blow your horn, after he has passed – there’ll be some bugger behind him that thinks the coast is clear.
After rain the white markings on road surfaces, especially on bends, are lethal and of course, gravel is a year round problem on bends.
Then there’s riding too close to a vehicle in front; if its a car, he has four bits of rubber gripping the road when it comes to braking; you only have two – stay back.
Riding on the Costa Tropical is very different to riding in the UK – there’s no ice but on the other hand, grease and rubber builds up during the late spring, summer and early autumn, so when it does rain, roads become skating rinks.
Interesting information as always. Is there any breakdown on the 293 accidents in terms of rider error or otherwise?…I only ask as a rider who is considering getting his first motorbike in Spain