Erasmus bus crash | |
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Date | 20 March 2016 |
Location |
Freginals, Catalonia,
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Incident type | traffic accident |
Cause | Under investigation, weariness of the driver (suspected) |
Statistics | |
Deaths | 13 |
Injured | 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 died – all of them young female students. [2]
Emergency services confirmed that the students on the affected bus were from 20 countries or territories: France, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Poland, Ireland, the Palestinian territories, Japan and Ukraine. [2]
The fatalities were seven Italians, two Germans, a Romanian, an Uzbek, a French and an Austrian. [3]
The bus driver died of a heart attack on 6 April 2023. [4]
40°39′36″N 0°30′40″E / 40.6600°N 0.5111°E
Erasmus bus crash | |
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| |
Details | |
Date | 20 March 2016 |
Location |
Freginals, Catalonia,
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Incident type | traffic accident |
Cause | Under investigation, weariness of the driver (suspected) |
Statistics | |
Deaths | 13 |
Injured | 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 died – all of them young female students. [2]
Emergency services confirmed that the students on the affected bus were from 20 countries or territories: France, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Poland, Ireland, the Palestinian territories, Japan and Ukraine. [2]
The fatalities were seven Italians, two Germans, a Romanian, an Uzbek, a French and an Austrian. [3]
The bus driver died of a heart attack on 6 April 2023. [4]
40°39′36″N 0°30′40″E / 40.6600°N 0.5111°E