Erasmus bus crash

On 20 March 2016, a Tata Hispano passenger bus carrying Erasmus students from several countries came from the Fallas Festival in Valencia to Barcelona collided with a car on the Autopista AP-7 motorway, near the town of Freginals.[1] Thirteen were killed – all of them young female students.[2]

Erasmus bus crash
Details
Date20 March 2016
LocationFreginals, Catalonia
Incident typetraffic accident
CauseUnder investigation, weariness of the driver (suspected)
Statistics
Deaths13
Injured43
DamageA bus

Emergency services confirmed that the students on the affected bus were from 19 countries or territories: France, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, the Palestinian territories, Japan and Ukraine.[2]

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