May 22, 2013

Police officers in Vigo, a municipality situated in the autonomous community of Galicia, in the northwest Spain, have arrested the 51 year old male driver of a car, a Spanish national and resident of the city, after they believed the driver may have been in a “serious state of alcohol intoxication”. The suspicions of the patrol were first raised...

May 21, 2013

A 30 year old man has died Tuesday following a road accident on Monday night, when the truck in which he was travelling along the A-7, passing through Orihuela (Alicante), crashed. The incident occurred at about 21:20 hours on Monday, when for reasons still unknown the truck carrying two people travelling on the A-7 at kilometre 742, lost control and flipped...

May 20, 2013

Emergency teams have managed to rescue the five occupants of a vehicle, all members of the same family, who fell into a ravine in Los Realejos, after going off the road on the highway north of Tenerife. The incident occurred at kilometre 41 when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle left the highway and fell into the gorge of Del Moral. Firefighters rushed to the...

May 19, 2013

A severe hailstorm caused two multiple collisions involving at least 50 cars in the municipality of Honrubia de la Cuesta, in the province of Segovia, tonight. At least thirteen people were injured as a result of the impacts. One of them, a man in his 50s, suffered serious injuries and had to be evacuated by helicopter to University Hospital in Burgos. Two...

May 19, 2013

Twelve people have died in any of the eleven accidents on Spanish roads over the weekend, as reported by a spokesman of the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT). Seven people were also seriously injured and a further six suffered minor problems, according to the provisional figured between 15:00 pm on Friday and 20:00 pm Sunday. Saturday was the worst day when...