Seat Belts Save Lives – But there is still a reluctance to use them “…almost a quarter of vehicle occupants choose not to use a seat belt” “…almost a quarter of the people aged 12 or over who lost their lives were not wearing a seat belt” All this week, and through the weekend, the DGT is running an intensified surveillance campaign focussing on the use of seat belts, … Read More
Fatal Collision at Santa Pola A woman, said to be 56-years-old, died on Tuesday after the vehicle she was in was involved in a collision with a bus on the N-332 near Santa Pola. The incident occurred at 15:46 at kilometre point 93.4 near to the Gran Alacant urbanisation in the Alicante direction towards El Altet. Another three vehicles were … Read More
Special Campaign to Focus on Secondary Road Dangers Oncde again, all this week, and through the weekend, an intensified campaign is running focussing on one of the areas of the Spanish road network where more fatalities and serious injuries take place, conventional roads. In 2015, there were 23,729 injury incidents on conventional roads, in which 971 people lost their lives, almost 3 people … Read More
Truck Driver in Lucky Blaze Escape The driver of a truck laden with vegetables is no doubt counting his blessings after surviving a major incident involving his vehicle late on Friday night. The fire service report that they were called to a vehicle blaze off the A-7 motorway, between Alicante and Elche, at around 02:45 in the early hours of Saturday … Read More
Just When You Think Things Can Only Get Better! When the driver of a delivery van was involved in a minor collision in Navarrés, the driver didn´t realise his day was about to get a whole lot worse. As the tow truck was in the process of recovering the van, it suffered some kind of failure, resulting in the van, which had already suffered … Read More
Eight Injured in Kamikaze Collision A total of eight people were injured on Saturday night after a kamikaze driver, travelling in the opposite direction, collided with other vehicles on the M-30 in Madrid. According to the preliminary investigations, which are ongoing, the driver allegedly travelled on the M-30 from kilometre 2 as far as kilometre 21, where the vehicle collided … Read More
Woman Rescued from Torrevieja Crash Car A woman has been injured after her car rolled over several times on calle Desiderio Rodríguez in Torrevieja. The victim was trapped in the vehicle, according to the Provincial Fire Consortium of Alicante who attended the scene to enact a rescue at around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. The driver was taken by ambulance to Torrevieja hospital. The reason for … Read More
Confused Kamikaze Driver Causes Crash A vehicle travelling in the wrong way along the AP-9 motorway near the Pontevedra town of Vilaboa on Saturday morning collided with another car resulting in three people being injured. According to the 112 emergency coordination centre, the incident occurred at 09:54 on Saturday morning at kilometre 134,600, in the Crecente direction. After receiving the … Read More
How to Deal with Priority Vehicles Emergency vehicle which are responding to an incident have priority over other vehicles. During any drive we must be forever conscious of our surroundings, allowing all of our senses to combine to provide special and location awareness, so that we Read Full Article... Read More
Drunk Driver Causes Ambulance Crash in Elche Officers from Elche Local Police arrested a man on suspicion of driving under the influence of excessive alcohol and in a vehicle which did not have insurance or ITV certification, after he caused an ambulance to crash in Elche. The Read Full Article... Read More
Emergency Simulation at Alicante-Elche Airport This Week Confirmed information has now been released concerning this week’s aircraft crash simulation which will take place around Alicante-Elche airport on Thursday. The Security and Emergency Response Agency will be coordinating the event on November 9th, which can also be followed Read Full Article... Read More
Elche Mourns Four Members of the Same Family Killed in Murcia Pileup Elche city council expressed their condolences to the relatives and friends of the family of four who were killed in Monday´s multi-vehicle crash in Murcia. Killed in the crash was 56-year-old José Vicente Maciá Segarra, who was previously a footballer Read Full Article... Read More