Parc Sagunt I: Sagunto to install speed bumps against illegal street races
Sagunto City Council will place speed bumps in Parc Sagunt I, an industrial park, to break up the straight roads used for illegal races, and will monitor the other industrial estates.
Sagunto City Council will install speed bumps (known in Spanish as «lomos de asno») at several points in Parc Sagunt I, an industrial park, to cut up the straight roads where illegal races are organised. The announcement was made public on 6 October 2026. It does not say how many bumps will be placed, how much they will cost or when work will start.
The logic of the measure is physical. Each bump forces drivers to brake, so a long straight road is divided into short sections where no car can reach or hold the speed a race needs. The council says the layout was planned according to the shape of the roads in Parc Sagunt I, where trucks, freight transport and professional vehicles pass every day. For that reason it wants a solution that disturbs businesses as little as possible. For people who work there, the consequence is clear: they will have to slow down on the sections with bumps.
The councillor for Local Police, María José Carrera, recalled that the council has been acting against these gatherings for some time, both in Parc Sagunt and in Camí la Mar (an adjacent industrial estate), with more police presence and other measures. Now a permanent obstacle on the asphalt is added. In her view, police surveillance and physical prevention complement each other, and the final aim is to reduce the risk that races pose to people.
The councillor for Industry, Toni Iborra, stressed a different risk: that the problem simply moves. In his view, it is no use solving it on one street if it reappears days later on another. So the council will monitor all the industrial areas of the municipality and, if it detects that the gatherings are shifting to other roads, it will study new prevention and safety measures. Iborra insisted that Parc Sagunt and Camí la Mar concentrate a large part of Sagunto's industrial activity and must be safe, orderly spaces, while remembering that they are roads people use for work.
The two priority areas are linked by a structural road that connects Parc Sagunt I and II with the Camí la Mar estate. In Camí la Mar, for now, the council announces no works: it speaks of reinforcing the actions already under way.
The closest precedent is from 2025. According to aytosagunto.es in June 2025, the Policía Local (municipal police) then launched a special weekend operation in Camí la Mar and Parc Sagunt, because of the growing number of people and vehicles at gatherings outside the rules. The first operation closed the accesses to Camí la Mar at 22:00, with document, alcohol and drug checks until 2:30 and the estate closed until 5:00. A Guardia Civil (national police force) patrol helped and also checked Parc Sagunt to discourage drivers from going there.
The result of that night was 8 reports for driving with drugs in the system, 3 for positive alcohol tests, 1 for reckless driving and 3 for expired ITV (vehicle roadworthiness inspection). The Policía Local then distinguished between tuning cars that come at night and follow the rules, and others that use the occasion for activities banned at the wheel. The bumps make no such distinction, but they target the second group: someone driving within the rules does not need speed.
Parc Sagunt I also has a concrete history. According to Telecinco in August 2022, a 17-year-old girl was hit in Parc Sagunt I as she was about to cross a zebra crossing, by a vehicle travelling at high speed in an incident the channel linked to an illegal race. She suffered broken ribs and a hip injury. The Policía Local immediately arrested the driver, who tested negative for alcohol and drugs.
Pressure on the area has not gone away. According to COPE, in May 2026 one of at least seven places in the province of Valencia with regular races was next to the PowerCo gigafactory (Volkswagen's battery plant) in Parc Sagunt I. The gatherings repeat on Friday and Saturday nights, so those are the nights that concentrate the risk for people who live or work nearby.
Still unknown are the installation timetable, the number of bumps and their exact positions, details the council has not given. Nor has it said what indicators it will use to decide whether to act in other estates, beyond detecting a shift in the gatherings.
According to Sagunto City Council and elperiodic.com, with additional data from aytosagunto.es (June 2025), Telecinco and COPE.