The search operation has been closed after being energetic all day within the Cerdedo-Cotobade municipality, the place a bus from the Mombús firm, which coated the Lugo-Vigo line to the Lérez river, has plunged into the Lérez river.
The disappeared have been looked for within the mattress of a raging river resulting from current rains. The different two passengers who have been within the automobile at the moment have been rescued alive.
Aviles, September 2018
The accident this Sunday, -without counting the presumed lacking person- already exceeds the variety of fatalities, to that which occurred in Avilés (Asturias), on September 3, 2018. Then, 5 folks died and 16 have been injured when a bus collided line of the Alsa firm in opposition to a cement pillar of a viaduct beneath building on the Avilés ring highway.
Tragedy on the AP-7
You have to return to 2016 to search out an accident with extra fatalities. It occurred on the AP-7 close to Freginals (Tarragona), when 14 younger folks died when a bus carrying international college students collided with a automobile.
Two years earlier, on November 8, 2014, one other 14 folks died and one other 43 have been injured to various levels, when a bus that was coming back from a spiritual act in Madrid fell down an embankment close to Cieza (Murcia). Speeding was listed as a attainable explanation for the accident.
a secure medium
According to the Spanish Confederation of Bus Transport (CONFEBUS), touring by coach is 20 instances safer than touring by automobile. The figures from the final steadiness revealed by the General Directorate of Traffic (equivalent to 2021) point out that within the final three years three folks have died in bus accidents on interurban roads, one per yr.
Accident charge in DGT coaches
The most tragic years have been 2014, with 23 bus occupants killed on any such highway; 2016, with 18 deaths and 2018, with eleven deaths.