Dr. Francisco Alonso, Director of INTRAS, has been interviewed by the digital newspaper NIUS for his article "Deaths on Spanish roads already exceed pre-pandemic victims", published on 2 November 2022.

Dr. Alonso comments that "after the pandemic we have taken to the roads and forgotten the risk involved in driving".

The accidents that claim the most victims are road accidents and head-on collisions. Alonso explains that "in the first case, distractions play a major role, and in the second, aggressive driving, which leads to riskier overtaking on two-way roads".

Scientific research by the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicates that the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by 25% after the Covid-19 pandemic. On this, Dr Alonso points out that "these substances sometimes cause us to drive in a more altered state, and sometimes they cause drowsiness. In both cases, this affects our ability to get behind the wheel and reduces our level of attention".

As for the ageing of the car fleet, the Director of INTRAS states that "we have had our cars idle for a long time and now we are using them again, but they are older and less well maintained".