Bus driver who crashed in Barcelona fell asleep at the wheel

The bus driver who is on this Tuesday he crashed in Barcelona, ​​causing 47 injuries, he fell asleep at the wheelthe Spanish media report.

It was the driver himself who admitted it during the police interrogation to which he was subjected. It is also known that tested negative for alcohol and drug use.

The latest assessment of the accident that occurred this morning, at 9:00 am local time, indicates that 47 people assisted by the medical emergency systemof which four, says El País, remain in serious condition.

The vehicle was left hanging at 45º at the entrance to a tunnel on the C-32 road, between Pineda de Mar and Tordera. It is a Inditex employee transport busa giant in the clothing industry that includes famous brands such as Zara and Massimo Dutti.

He had left about an hour earlier from Plaza Tetuán, in the center of Barcelona, ​​to pick up the workers and take them to the company’s facilities in Tordera.

The confession of the driver, the last victim to be freed from inside the vehicle and who suffered only minor injuries, does not, however, exhaust the investigation being conducted by the Catalan authorities.

To the The countryRamon Lamiel, from the Catalan Traffic Service, admits that experts have “a costly investigation” ahead of them, in which they will also The weather conditions, the condition of the vehicle and the road itself will be checked with a fine-tooth comb..

At this moment, the health situation that raises the most concern is that of a j28-year-old man who suffered a spinal cord injury.

Most of the passengers I was going to sleep and was woken up at the time the accident occurred.

Source: rr.sapo.pt