The Security Forces are on the lookout for the driving force of the deadly accidents in Paseo de Extremadura (Madrid), which have left two individuals lifeless and several other injured, and who fled after a police pursuit started when the Civil Guard of Traffic gave him the cease when detecting {that a} child was touring within the car within the arms of an grownup.
The driver is a 31-year-old man who the police are on the lookout for and who fled on foot, in keeping with police sources. There are two different occupants detained on the scene, between Paseo de Extremadura and Saavedra Fajardo avenue: a person injured with bruises and a girl who was touring with an eight-month-old child, the latter two unhurt.
Police sources indicated minutes after the deadly assault that frequent criminals have been concerned, ruling out terrorist motivation.
Car detected at mid-morning
According to sources from the Civil Guard of Traffic, the Mercedes mannequin automotive was detected at 12:50 p.m. at kilometer 6,406 of the A-5, in Leganés, with a minor touring within the arms of an grownup, with out the regulatory restraint. .
The Civil Guard stopped him they usually fled alongside the M-406 (Alcorcón-Getafe), to then drive alongside the A-4098 and M-50, till they reached Paseo de Extremadura.
It was on this street within the capital the place the assaults have been recorded shortly earlier than 1:00 p.m. in three totally different places, inflicting the demise of two individuals and the damage of 5 others.
Two males aged 72 and 81 died
Thus, at quantity 154 of Paseo de Extremadura, SAMUR-Civil Protection has confirmed the demise of a 72-year-old man and has attended a few about 65 years outdated who have been discharged within the place and a 90-year-old lady , which has been transferred for analysis.
On the opposite hand, at quantity 88, the docs have confirmed the demise of an 81-year-old man, whose relations have needed to be attended by a SAMUR psychologist.
Likewise, at number one, on the confluence of Paseo Extremadura with Saavedra Fajardo, the SAMUR has handled two individuals, one for minor bruises and the opposite for an nervousness disaster. The SAMUR-Civil Protection psychologist has additionally gone to speak the information to relations of the primary deceased.
Municipal police take over the investigation
In statements to the media from the place of the collision, Fernando Argote Cardeñosa, commissioner of the Judicial Traffic Police of the Municipal Police of Madrid, who has taken cost of the investigation, defined that the driving force of the car has managed to flee the scene, in keeping with the primary indications, and it’s about finding him.
In this sense, the commissioner, who has requested for prudence as he’s “in full investigation”, has defined that it’s a car “that got here from afar” and that it has fled from the Civil Guard of Traffic and within the flight has overwhelmed these individuals.
“From now on, what we’re going to do is all the required work by the Judicial Traffic Police of the Municipal Police of Madrid, in an effort to lastly be capable of decide the way it has been, the causes, the results, every little thing there’s, as a result of what there are are two victims who’re those that I believe we should always do justice,” he pressured.
Thus, he defined that the tourism concerned shall be completely reviewed for inspection and seek for traces and clues. At first look, he has indicated, the state through which the windshield has been left, signifies that “it was not going at low pace”.
“What we’re going to do is an investigation as exhaustive as doable in order that in the long run each the Prosecutor’s Office and the Court decide if it may have been reckless or not, or it may have been one thing intentional. But in keeping with all appearances and even when they need to, I get moist , it’s reckless”, indicated the commissioner, who has specified that recklessness doesn’t imply an accident. “It is an accident that would have been averted and of some individuals who have fled from a car”, * he has * defined him.
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