The place of the accident the place 4 women died this Saturday evening is a black spot The 26-year-old driver of the car misplaced management and hit one other automobile She got here to select up her 15-year-old sister from the events in Collado Villalba and two different mates aged 16 and 13
The residents of Collado Villalba are properly conscious of the deadly curve that’s on the outskirts of the city. It is at kilometer 38 of the M-608, a one-lane highway in every course. It is a curve the place once in a while an accident happens. A black dot.
The clarification? “It has little or no shoulder, the visibility could be very lowered, and there may be all the time a whole lot of visitors right here”, says a bike owner who has pedaled right here a number of instances. “As quickly as somebody loses management, it is easy for them to invade the wrong way,” provides a platoon mate to our colleague Cecilia Encinas, from Cuatro al día.
That’s the identical factor that occurred to Polina. The 26-year-old Bulgarian nationwide had simply closed Ayra, the favored cocktail bar that she ran within the Mozalzarzal bullring. She had deliberate to select up her 15-year-old sister and two mates aged 16 and 13 who have been at events within the neighboring city of Collado Villalba.
Four ladies die in an accident in Collado Villalba
The journey residence was not lengthy, barely quarter-hour by automobile. But with the vacations the outgoing visitors was larger than traditional and visibility was decrease. It was 5:50 within the morning, nonetheless darkish. There was an hour left till daybreak.
When Polina had barely lined two kilometers the car reached the cursed curve. For causes which can be nonetheless being investigated, the younger girl misplaced management and the automobile left the highway. Polina swerved a number of instances to return to the highway, and succeeded, however invaded the wrong way.
Place of the accident EFE / Belén Escudero
Bad luck triggered a 30-year-old civil guard agent to flow into there at that second, who was going to the city barracks. Both automobiles collided head-on. The agent was transferred in critical situation to the Puerta de Hierro Hospital. She suffers a number of fractures, however she is out of hazard.
Another destiny ran Polina, her sister and her two mates. They took the brunt of the shock. They received trapped. Their our bodies, already lifeless, needed to be rescued by firefighters.
Young folks from Moralzarzal, after listening to the newsEFE/Belén Escudero
At mid-morning this Sunday the information was identified. It additionally transcended that the ladies have been from Mozalzarzal. In the city sq., on a Communion Sunday, the information unfold by phrase of mouth. Groups of younger folks clustered spontaneously, attempting to consolation one another. Some of them targeting the road the place Polina and her sister lived.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, didn’t take lengthy to publish a tweet wherein she lamented the accident.
Four younger folks have died this morning in a horrible accident between Moralzarzal and Collado Villalba.
Our deepest condolences to the households and want a speedy restoration to the injured driver. A tragedy that plunges us all into deep unhappiness. D.E.P
— Isabel Díaz Ayuso (@IdiazAyuso) June 11, 2023
The Mozalzarzal City Council did the identical, which decreed three days of official mourning. The appearing mayor, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Osuna, didn’t hesitate to level out a offender: the freeway.
He denounced that it’s a “very harmful” highway, particularly attributable to its very excessive visitors density. “Some 20,000 automobiles flow into by means of it each day as it’s a truck hyperlink between the A-6 and A-1 motorways,” he defined.
“The city of Moralzarzal is on the aspect of the households,” he added. “We might be there for all the things you want.”
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