Erasmus bus crash

Erasmus bus crash
Details
Date 20 March 2016
Location Freginals, Catalonia
Type of incident traffic accident
Cause Under investigation, weariness of the driver (suspected)
Statistics
Deaths 13
Injuries 43
Damage A bus

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]

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

  1. ↑ "Spain student bus crash victims 'all young foreign women'". Euronews. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  2. 1 2 "13 Exchange Students Killed When Bus Crashes in Spanish Catalonia". NBC News. Retrieved 2016-03-21.

Coordinates: 40°39′36″N 0°30′40″E / 40.6600°N 0.5111°E / 40.6600; 0.5111

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