2023-08-01 09:43:12
Updated: 01 Aug 2023 | 09:43
01 ago 2023 | 09:42
The shock experienced this Monday after the accident on the road up to the Lakes of Covadonga that could have been a real tragedy continues. The event is still being investigated but various witness testimonies have given an account of what happened.
The accident took place shortly before noon at kilometer C0-4, the road between Covadonga and Los Lagos, a route that, given the high frequency of travelers in summer, has limited circulation of private vehicles. and is mainly covered by buses.
The bus that was in the accident left the road on the right hand side after passing the Mirador de la Reina and, according to eyewitnesses, after rolling over twice, it stopped on one of its sides in a sloping area with low vegetation and no wooded. Although the causes of the accident are being investigated, some passengers have commented that the bus was going at low speed and that it slowly overturned after braking and passing another vehicle traveling in the opposite direction.
Antonio, a taxi driver who was driving in the area at the time of the accident, and with whom laSexta was able to speak, recounted to the media how he had heard “screams”: “If the bus rolls over two more times, no one will tell “, sentenced the witness, who maintained that the bus driver, his friend, had taken the “worst part”.
The bus, with an age of nine years and four months and equipped with seat belts, had passed the ITV earlier this month, and the driver, a professional with 21 years of experience who regularly makes this journey, had taken his rest regulatory on July 25 and 26, according to Alsa.
This route in the most visited area of the Picos de Europa is carried out by “the most experienced drivers” and, according to the company, they also have “specific training in driving on high mountain roads”.
six seriously injured
Six people have been seriously injured “with a reserved prognosis”, another six less serious and 37 minor when a bus with 48 passengers and the driver that covered the service between Covadonga and Los Lagos fell off a cliff on Monday, on the Asturian slope of the Los Lagos National Park. Picos de Europa, according to health sources and the Civil Guard.
This is the latest report on the number of injured reported by the Vice President of the Asturian Government, Gimena Llamedo, who has clarified that among the injured there is at least one foreigner of Austrian nationality and residents of Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, Andalusia and Extremadura who They were on vacation in Asturias.
Among the 48 passengers, there were ten children between the ages of eight months and 13 years, none of whom suffered serious injuries, although they were taken to the Arriondas and Gijón hospitals along with their families.
The six most seriously injured were transferred to the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA), in Oviedo, and to Arriondas, four of them by helicopter. Six other passengers also suffered serious injuries, three of whom were treated at the Arriondas Hospital, the closest to the accident site, two in the Nalón Valley, in Langreo, and another in Cabueñes, in Gijón, has detailed the 112 Asturias.
The other 37 occupants of the bus were slightly injured by blows and bruises, and of them, at 7:00 p.m., 19 had already received a medical discharge, since they were all transferred to health centers to be treated.
“It could have been a tragedy”
The President of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, has followed the device and the assistance work from Luarca, in western Asturias, where he held the last meeting of the Governing Council of the last legislature. “It could have been a real tragedy,” said the President of the Principality, Adrián Barbón, who has followed the extensive device deployed from Luarca, where the Governing Council met for the last time today.
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