Andorra Records Single Road Fatality in 2025, Down from Six in 2024
The Principality's roads saw just one fatal accident within borders this year, a sharp drop attributed to returning to typical safety levels, though.
Key Points
- One fatality on Dec 3: 81-year-old pedestrian hit by car on Avinguda Fiter i Rossell.
- Aug 7 domestic crash: 91-year-old woman's stroke caused fatal loss of control (not official road stat).
- Three Andorrans died in Catalonia: motorcyclist on N-260, dancer in Oliola high-speed crash, elderly woman in C-14 pile-up.
- Stats return to normal after 2024's unusual spike.
Andorra's road network recorded just one fatal traffic accident in 2025, a sharp decline from the six deaths in 2024.
The sole fatality within the Principality occurred on 3 December, when an 81-year-old man was struck by a car while crossing a pedestrian walkway in front of the hospital lift on Avinguda Fiter i Rossell. The vehicle had just emerged from Carrer Manel Cerqueda Escaler. The pedestrian was rushed to hospital in critical condition and died two days later.
A second death linked to a domestic crash was recorded on 7 August, when a 91-year-old woman from Sant Julià de Lòria suffered a double stroke while driving in Juberri. She lost control, crashed, and later died in hospital. Officials noted that her organic failure proved more severe than injuries from the impact itself, though it is not officially counted among the year's fatal road incidents.
Outside Andorra's borders, three residents lost their lives in crashes on Catalan roads. A 21-year-old motorcyclist died after colliding with a car on the N-260 near the turn-off for Arfa. On 5 October, a well-known Latin dance instructor was killed in a high-speed crash in Oliola, near Ponts; the other driver was arrested by Mossos d'Esquadra on charges of manslaughter by gross negligence, testing positive for drugs and alcohol.
The third fatality came on 3 November, when an 88-year-old woman involved in a three-vehicle pile-up on the C-14 in Basella municipality—near the turn for Solsona—succumbed to her injuries a few days later.
The improved safety record returns Andorra's statistics to more typical levels after last year's unusually high toll.
Original Sources
This article was aggregated from the following Catalan-language sources: