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 | |
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| Details | |
| Date | 20 March 2016 |
| Location | Freginals, Catalonia |
| Incident type | traffic accident |
| Cause | Under investigation, weariness of the driver (suspected) |
| Statistics | |
| Deaths | 13 |
| Injured | 43 |
| Damage | A 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]
References
- "Spain student bus crash victims 'all young foreign women'". Euronews. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- "13 Exchange Students Killed When Bus Crashes in Spanish Catalonia". NBC News. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
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