Since the beginning of 2022, 23 people have lost their lives on Catalan interurban roads, the worst record of the last four years
The side impact between two trucks circulating on the AP-7 towards France ended up causing a spectacular traffic accident on Tuesday. One of the two heavy vehicles involved in the initial crash overturned and in its erratic trajectory ran over a passenger car. He pulled it off the road, breaking the guardrail and pinning it against the concrete partition that divides both directions of travel from the freeway. Only chance caused the imprisonment between the truck and the concrete wall to hit the front of the vehicle, which meant that the cab was spared crushing. The image witnessed by the thousands of cars that from then on circulated in the opposite lanes, in the direction of Barcelona, was breathtaking: an overturned truck and a wrecked car pinched by the nose, between the separation wall and the heavy vehicle.
Quite contrary to what those thousands of drivers must have thought, that accident it was settled without deaths. The two occupants of the tourism, two women, survived the crash and were transferred to the University Hospital of Girona Doctor Josep Truetawhere they recover from non-serious injuries. In fact, when the troops of the park of Firefighters of the Generalitat of Maçanet de la Selva They went to the place, the two occupants of the vehicle had already left the cabin, or what was left of it, by their own feet. Several of the officials who attended the emergency, of the Mossos d’Esquadrafirefighters or Medical Emergency System They returned from the accident wondering if the two occupants “were aware” of how close they came to dying. “The normal thing, in 90% of cases, is that the car would have ended up completely crushed,” they say.
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The Catalan Transit Service (SCT), which notifies the media of all serious accidents that occur on the Catalan interurban network through whatsapp, did not report this: there were no deaths or serious injuries. What did cause the accident was queues in both directions of the march. Especially in the one where the drivers who were heading towards the border circulated. More than five hours after the crash, the retention at that point was quantified by Google Maps in more than one hour, the section between Hostalric and Maçanet de la Selva – the accident occurred within the municipality of Fogars de la Selva – was a traffic jam gigantic.
Inconvenience for drivers but the black balance of fatalities this year was not aggravated by this accident. A few hours earlier, however, a truck driver died in another accident and the record had been raised to 23 lives lost on the asphalt since 2022 started. It is the worst data that has been obtained in the last three years. And the trend is not attributable to the recovery of mobility that follows the end of the pandemic, given that in the months of January and February 2019 and 2020 there was no coronavirus and fewer people died.