A 39-year-old motorist died on Friday night after colliding with a car on Avenida Mare de Déu de Montserrat in Barcelona. The incident occurred at 9:00 p.m., at the intersection with Praga street in the Horta-Guinardó district of Barcelona.
Police officers and the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) went to the scene of the accident and took the man, seriously injured, to the Hospital de Sant Pau, where he finally died.
This is the seventh fatality in a traffic accident in the city in 2023, the City Council reported in a statement this Saturday, in which it also regretted the death and “reaffirmed its commitment” to continue working to reduce traffic victims.
Sinister on the AP-7
A minor also died in a motorcycle accident last morning on the AP-7 motorway, as it passed through the Barcelona town of Santa Perpètua de la Mogoda, the Servei Català de Trànsit reported.
The incident occurred shortly before five in the morning at kilometer 144.1 of the AP-7, northbound.
For reasons that are being investigated, an accident with a motorcycle involved has been recorded at that point, an accident as a result of which the minor died.
Six Mossos patrols and four units of the Emergency Medical System (SEM) have worked on this accident, as well as a psychological support unit.
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As a result of the accident, there have been traffic jams on the AP-7, with a caravan going north for a kilometer until the situation has returned to normal, minutes before six in the morning.
With the death of this minor, there are already 48 people who have died in traffic accidents on the interurban road network in Catalonia so far this year, 13 of them motorcyclists.