The judge has asked Barcelona City Council to identify the person responsible for the maintenance of Aragó Street to cite him as being investigated for the fatal accident of boxer Xavi Moya.
The head of Court 17 of Barcelona has issued an order in which he demands that the City Council notify him of the name of “the person responsible for signaling, conservation and maintenance of the road where the accident occurred on October 7, 2023, in order to to receive a statement as investigated.” The information was provided yesterday by the Vosseler law firm, which has taken over the representation of Moya’s family and which stressed that “never in judicial history had a municipal official been summoned for his possible responsibility in a traffic accident. traffic”.
The magistrate wants to hear the explanations of this municipal charge after receiving a report from the Urban Police in which the cause of the accident was pointed out as a collision with a rubber element of the road of an old bicycle lane that had not been removed nor was it marked. . These explanations from the local police were, in the opinion of the victim’s lawyers, evidence that the accident was not the boxer’s fault and that the City Council could have incurred serious imprudence by not having removed those elements from the road.
Former boxer Xavi Moya, 55, was driving his motorcycle when he was traveling on Aragó Street near Sicília Street. There he came across a corner in which a bicycle lane had been disabled but from which a protective rubber element had not been removed. Moya collided with that obstacle, which caused his death. “The cause of the accident was the poor signage and placement of the aforementioned rubber element at the intersection of Aragó and Sicília streets. It was a death trap,” maintain the deceased’s lawyers, who attribute responsibility to the City Council “for the poor state of conservation in which one of the main arteries of Barcelona was.” At that time, according to the law firm, 14 accidents were recorded at that same point, seven of them involving motorcyclists, without consequences as serious as that of the boxer. However, the Urban Police have only recorded one incident.
The boxer Xavi Moya was three times Spanish middleweight champion and world and European champion of kung fu and full contact.