Fourteen dead to fall a bus by an embankment at Murcia

Fourteen people have died and 42 have been wounded in the Saturday night in a bus accident on the road of Calasparra, in the village of Cieza (Murcia), following the fall of the vehicle by an embankment of about 15 meters, as we were told by the emergency services. It is the third most serious accident in Spain since 2000. Both fatalities as the wounded are neighbors of the small town of Bullas Wine (in the Northwest of the Murcia region), where returning after in Madrid to attend a religious act of devotion to the mother wonders. The regional government has decreed this morning three days of official mourning.

About 40 passengers were transferred to different hospitals in Murcia, Cieza and Hellin, in the province of Albacete. During the morning, a dozen were given high, according to the Delegation of the Government in Murcia. Ten of the victims were killed in the act, while the other three have done later in the centers where they were admitted. Another victim is still in critical condition in hospital in the Region of Murcia. The authorities have established a center of coordination and information for families in the flag Juan Valera of Bullas, a small town in the region of the Northwest.




The vehicle was being driven by the A-30, had stopped to rest in the Roda (Albacete) and shortly after he joined the RM PM-714 toward bypassing several signals of speed limit and a "stop", Efe reported to the source news. As a result fell off the embankment and as a result of the impact have killed 14 people. Sources have indicated that the driver suffered an anxiety attack and then recounted to the agents that he had failed the brakes. In the proof of alcohol and drugs has given a negative.







The driver, which will be arrested, is charged with crimes of homicide and injury through negligence and will go to court. The Government delegate, Joaquin Bascunana, has confirmed that the driver of the vehicle has survived and will have practiced the corresponding evidence of alcohol and drugs, which have proved negative.This is an official news.

The vehicle, which had spent a few days ago the ITV, according to its owner, had been subcontracted from Bullae by a parish to travel to Madrid to participate in a religious act of devotion to the mother wonders. One of the deceased is the priest of the town, for 36 years. The vehicle, "nine or ten" years old, according to his owner (the firm of J. Ruiz), he was "in perfect condition" and had passed the technical inspection "because he had the trip to Madrid".