A 49-year-old motorcyclist died in Lleida yesterday after losing control of his bike near Barris Nord, in the city’s first fatal road accident of the year.
Emergency services received the alert at about 7.23pm for an accident on Manuel de Montsuar street. According to local reports, the rider had left a workshop and lost control while entering a roundabout, colliding with the central reservation.
The impact threw the driver from the motorcycle. The bike then hit a pedestrian on a scooter, who suffered leg injuries and was taken to Arnau de Vilanova hospital.
Urban Guard patrols, the Sistema d'Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) and firefighters attended the scene. Firefighters did not need to act because nobody was trapped.
The death brings the number of traffic fatalities in the Lleida region to nine since the start of the year. The most recent before this case was on 2 June, when another motorcyclist died after colliding with a car on the C-45 road in Seròs. That victim, a 65-year-old resident of La Granja d'Escarp, died hours later in hospital.
On the same day, three residents of Mequinenza, aged 56, 65 and 75, died when their van crashed into a lorry on the A-1223 road between Monzón and Poleñino, near Ilche in Huesca province. Days earlier, on 25 May, a 19-year-old student from Tamarit de Llitera, who was studying at Inefc Lleida, died in a traffic accident in her hometown after returning home from an exam in Lleida. For more local coverage, see our news page.
Servei Català de Trànsit launched a campaign last week, running until 19 June, to reduce accidents involving motorcyclists. The campaign includes police operations and training initiatives. Motorcyclists are the group with the highest number of fatalities in Catalonia in 2026, with 21 deaths so far, matching the total for both 2019 and 2025. The campaign, a repeat of one previously titled “To avoid accidents, anticipate”, aims to promote better awareness, training and responsibility among all road users.