A motorcyclist died this Sunday on the C-233 in Albagés (Lleida) in a collision with a wild boar, the Servei Català del Trànsit (SCT) reported. The accident occurred around 11:45 a.m. at kilometer 40.5 of that road, heading north, and forced the road to be cut in both directions. Three patrols from the Mossos d’Esquadra, two crews from the Generalitat Fire Department and two ambulances and a medical helicopter from the Medical Emergency System (SEM) have worked at the scene of the accident.
With this death, there are now 112 people who have died in interurban accidents in Catalonia since the beginning of the year, of which 44 are motorcyclists. On January 23, 2022, a motorcyclist also died after colliding with another specimen on a road passing through the municipality of Abrera (Barcelona). According to a recent report by the Mossos d’Esquadra, wild boars and roe deer, With increasingly uncontrolled populations in the community, they already cause 30% of the total accidents in Catalonia, explains Jordi Batista, deputy head of the Traffic Division.
The wild boar has lost its fear of humans and its environment, which it sees as a source of food. In Catalonia, as in all of Europetheir populations continue to grow and cause conflicts. The experts who participated in September 2023 at the XIII World Wild Boar Congress held in Seva (Barcelona) consider that controlling this trend is “one of the main challenges for wildlife managers around the world.”
