Black day on the Spanish road network. Several multiple accidents in the province of Ciudad Real due to intense fog have caused the death of at least one man and his two children, all of them residents of Morón de la Frontera (Seville). The fatal accident took place on the A-4 highway as it passed through the town of Santa Cruz de Mudela (Ciudad Real), where another 18 people were injured to varying degrees, three of them seriously.
This has been confirmed to Europa Press by sources from the Unión Deportiva Morón, in whose lower categories one of the deceased sons played, specifying that these people were traveling to Madrid to attend the match being held this afternoon between Atlético de Madrid and Sevilla F.C.
The club has shown on the social network Sevilla F.C. and the mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, have also shown their regret on social network X for these deaths.
As reported by sources from the 112 Emergency Service to Europa Press, one of the three seriously injured has not yet been able to be transferred to any hospital because he is trapped, while the other two have been sent to the hospitals of Ciudad Real and Albacete. , respectively.
In addition, the A-4 has been completely closed to traffic after at least four other multiple collisions were recorded after 9:00 a.m. this Thursday.
After these new accidents, caused by intense fog, the A-4 has been completely closed between kilometers 211 and 214 and the Government of Castilla-La Mancha has activated the Response Plan for Traffic Accidents with Multiple Victims due to the number of traffic accidents that occurred. As a whole, a total of 12 trucks, two vans and nine passenger cars have been involved in the accidents.
Civil Guard troops, firefighters from the Manzanares and Valdepeñas parks, five ambulances, 3 mobile ICUs and a medical helicopter are working at the scene of the events.
These accidents occurred at the same point on the A-4 where a total of 13 vehicles collided last night – seven trailer trucks, four passenger cars, an ambulance and a van – which resulted in a A total of 14 people were injured to various degrees and caused traffic to be cut off in the direction of Andalusia.
Of the 14 people injured, three of them women and 11 men. Of all of them, three were transferred to the hospital in the town of Manzanares, five to Valdepeñas and six to Ciudad Real.