| Erasmus bus crash | |
|---|---|
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| Details | |
| Date | 20 March 2016 |
| Location | Freginals, Catalonia,  Spain |
| Incident type | traffic accident |
| Cause | Under investigation, weariness of the driver (suspected) |
| Statistics | |
| Deaths | 13 |
| Injured | 43 |
| Damage | A bus |
On 20 March 2016, a Tata Hispano passenger bus carrying Erasmus students from several countries came from the Fallas Festival in Valencia to Barcelona collided with a car on the Autopista AP-7 motorway, near the town of Freginals.[1] Thirteen died – all of them young female students.[2]
Emergency services confirmed that the students on the affected bus were from 20 countries or territories: France, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Poland, Ireland, the Palestinian territories, Japan and Ukraine.[2]
The fatalities were seven Italians, two Germans, a Romanian, an Uzbek, a French and an Austrian.[3]
The bus driver died of a heart attack on 6 April 2023.[4]
- ^ "Spain student bus crash victims 'all young foreign women'". Euronews. 20 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^ a b "13 Exchange Students Killed When Bus Crashes in Spanish Catalonia". NBC News. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^ "Aggiornamento sulla vicenda spagnola". ESN (in Italian). 21 March 2016.
- ^ "La morte di Serena Saracino resta senza colpevoli: l'autista del bus è morto di infarto". Torino Today (in Italian). 7 April 2023.