The traffic accident that this morning caused the death of six people hit by an articulated vehicle at a Civil Guard citizen security checkpoint on the AP-4, near Los Palacios-Villafranca (Seville), is among the most tragic of the last ten years.
As the data provided to EFE by the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) recalls, the most serious took place on November 8, 2014 when a bus plunged down a slope in Venta del Olivo, in Cieza (Murcia) in an accident. which caused the death of fourteen passengers and injuries to another 42.
The travelers, all of them residents of the Murcian town of Bullas, were returning from Madrid when the bus left the A-30 to access the deceleration lane that leads to the Murcian town of Calasparra and fell down an embankment, possibly due to excessive speed.
The second most serious in terms of number of victims in the last ten years took place on March 20, 2016, also with a bus involved, this time in Freginals (Tarragona).
Thirteen people died when the bus carrying foreign students collided with a car on the AP-7 near the aforementioned town.
Eight people died on July 22, 2014 in the accident on the A-7 in Cox (Alicante) when a truck invaded the oncoming traffic lane and collided with the van in which the victims, all of Romanian nationality, were traveling.
Meanwhile, seven people died in each of these two accidents: the one that took place on April 2, 2016 in Pont de Molins (Girona), with two vehicles involved; and the most recent on Christmas Eve 2022 in an accident involving a Cerdedo-Cotobade (Pontevedra) bus.