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Witnesses assured the trailer of the articulated lorry ran over several cars which were stopped in a hold-up next to La Paz camping site
Oct 10, 2017 - 11:07 AM
Five dead in a tragic collision between two lorries and 11 cars on the A-7
Witnesses assured the trailer of the articulated lorry ran over several cars which were stopped in a hold-up next to La Paz camping site
Oct 10, 2017 - 11:07 AM
The A-7 motorway, at the location of the Murcia hamlet of Sangonera la Seca, converted yesterday into the epicentre of pain and chaos. A lorry caused a brutal accident which left five dead, three women and two men, and a dozen injured.
Four of those killed formed part of the same family, resident in Elche. The tragedy which saw a total of thirteen vehicles (two articulated lorries with trailers, two vans, and nine cars) obliged the closure of the road for several hours on the A-7 with diversions put in place.
The tragedy occurred late yesterday evening, next to the la Paz camping site and service area, at the exit to the Murcia village Sangonera la Seca. Some of the injured told La Verdad, the long tailback resulted in other collisions closer to the city.
Said witnesses, blame the articulated lorry for failing to break and for running into the parked vehicles, some forced into the air, and landing off the motorway. After smashing eight cars and the two vans, the trailer swung around causing the fatalities.
A Seat (containing three women and one man), a Mercedes A180 (one male driver) who was hit by the back of the second lorry, reducing both cars into a massacre of iron, and certainly causing instant death.
The first vehicle to be smashed by the trailer was a Nissan Primastar van containing an Ecuadorian family resident locally in Totana. According to 43-year-old Ángel Flores, he was accompanied by his wife, Gloria Mercedes and their 17-year-old daughter. ‘We were stopped in the hold-up when we saw it’ explained Flores, ‘I looked in my rear mirror and then shouted at my family ‘hold on tight a lorry is coming!’. Still at the site, his wife remembered those seconds with an impossible nervousness unable to hide. ‘I don’t remember anything, only my husband shouting for me to hold tight’,
The Ecuadorian family, and many others caught up in the accident suffered different degrees of injuries, many suffering back pains after the impact according to the database established at the scene by the Traffic Guardia Civil.
The injured helped each other – such as 55-year-old Ginés Jerez, a fisherman, who works on a boat in Mazarrón. Yesterday he was driving to work with a companion from Altea when they saw the accident. The van in which they were travelling was also hit, but both were only slightly hurt, and hence went to help the other wounded, among them the occupants of the SUV whose vehicle flew off the motorway.
‘We had to get people out through the windows’ he said nervously, ‘Luckily they were unhurt as all were wearing seat-belts’. Ginés waited on the pavement to allow the Emergency Services to do their job. ‘What I have lived was too much’ she lamented ‘I was on my way to bury by son-in-law and look at the state of the cake’
The importance of this tragic accident covered several kilometres, as some six fire engines rushed to the scene, Local Police patrols from Murcia and the Traffic Guardia Civil, technicians from the General Emergencies Direction, a team of crains and numerous ambulances, which started a rally operation between the site and many hospitals: La Arrixaca, Morales Meseguer and Reina Sofía taking the injured.
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Four of those killed formed part of the same family, resident in Elche. The tragedy which saw a total of thirteen vehicles (two articulated lorries with trailers, two vans, and nine cars) obliged the closure of the road for several hours on the A-7 with diversions put in place.
The tragedy occurred late yesterday evening, next to the la Paz camping site and service area, at the exit to the Murcia village Sangonera la Seca. Some of the injured told La Verdad, the long tailback resulted in other collisions closer to the city.
Said witnesses, blame the articulated lorry for failing to break and for running into the parked vehicles, some forced into the air, and landing off the motorway. After smashing eight cars and the two vans, the trailer swung around causing the fatalities.
A Seat (containing three women and one man), a Mercedes A180 (one male driver) who was hit by the back of the second lorry, reducing both cars into a massacre of iron, and certainly causing instant death.
The first vehicle to be smashed by the trailer was a Nissan Primastar van containing an Ecuadorian family resident locally in Totana. According to 43-year-old Ángel Flores, he was accompanied by his wife, Gloria Mercedes and their 17-year-old daughter. ‘We were stopped in the hold-up when we saw it’ explained Flores, ‘I looked in my rear mirror and then shouted at my family ‘hold on tight a lorry is coming!’. Still at the site, his wife remembered those seconds with an impossible nervousness unable to hide. ‘I don’t remember anything, only my husband shouting for me to hold tight’,
The Ecuadorian family, and many others caught up in the accident suffered different degrees of injuries, many suffering back pains after the impact according to the database established at the scene by the Traffic Guardia Civil.
The injured helped each other – such as 55-year-old Ginés Jerez, a fisherman, who works on a boat in Mazarrón. Yesterday he was driving to work with a companion from Altea when they saw the accident. The van in which they were travelling was also hit, but both were only slightly hurt, and hence went to help the other wounded, among them the occupants of the SUV whose vehicle flew off the motorway.
‘We had to get people out through the windows’ he said nervously, ‘Luckily they were unhurt as all were wearing seat-belts’. Ginés waited on the pavement to allow the Emergency Services to do their job. ‘What I have lived was too much’ she lamented ‘I was on my way to bury by son-in-law and look at the state of the cake’
The importance of this tragic accident covered several kilometres, as some six fire engines rushed to the scene, Local Police patrols from Murcia and the Traffic Guardia Civil, technicians from the General Emergencies Direction, a team of crains and numerous ambulances, which started a rally operation between the site and many hospitals: La Arrixaca, Morales Meseguer and Reina Sofía taking the injured.
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