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ANSR's Q1 2026 Sinistralidade Tape Tallies 102 Road Fatalities Across Continental Portugal — A 6.4% YoY Step Down as IC2, EN125 and IC8 Corridors Carry the Severity Tail and Excesso de Velocidade Holds the Cause Ranking at 31% of Acidentes com Vítimas

ANSR's Q1 2026 Sinistralidade Tape Tallies 102 Road Fatalities Across Continental Portugal — A 6.4% YoY Step Down as IC2, EN125 and IC8 Corridors Carry the Severity Tail and Excesso de Velocidade Holds the Cause Ranking at 31% of Acidentes com Vítimas

ANSR's preliminary Q1 2026 tape, surfaced 29 May, puts continental Portugal at 102 road fatalities to 31 March — a 6.4% YoY drop on 7,742 acidentes com vítimas. The IC2, EN125 and IC8 carry the severity tail; excesso de velocidade holds the cause ranking at 31%.

Humberto Delgado Departures Border-Control Wait Swells Past One Hour on Saturday 16 May After IT Failure — Schengen-Exit Passengers Hit Worst Six Weeks Into the EU EES 100% Rollout and Eight Days After Ryanair's September Demand

Humberto Delgado Departures Border-Control Wait Swells Past One Hour on Saturday 16 May After IT Failure — Schengen-Exit Passengers Hit Worst Six Weeks Into the EU EES 100% Rollout and Eight Days After Ryanair's September Demand

Lisbon's Humberto Delgado departures border-control wait swelled past 60 minutes on Saturday 16 May after a PSP-confirmed IT failure. ANA advised non-Schengen passengers to arrive earlier. Six weeks into the EU EES 100% rollout, eight days after Ryanair demanded September suspension.

MAI Luís Neves Walks the PSP Esquadra Closure Plan Onto Grande Entrevista on Thursday 14 May — 30-Agente Threshold Per Station Becomes the Reorganisation Trigger as Lisbon and Porto Reset the Urban Policing Map

MAI Luís Neves Walks the PSP Esquadra Closure Plan Onto Grande Entrevista on Thursday 14 May — 30-Agente Threshold Per Station Becomes the Reorganisation Trigger as Lisbon and Porto Reset the Urban Policing Map

Internal Administration Minister Luís Neves used the Thursday 14 May 2026 edition of RTP3's Grande Entrevista to confirm — for the first time on the record — that the Polícia de Segurança Pública will close esquadras in Lisbon and other major urban...