Two accidents on Catalan roads have left one dead and five injured this Sunday. In one of the accidents, a motorcyclist died after midday when his motorcycle went off the road shortly on the N-340 road as it passed through Subirats (Barcelona), as reported by the Servei Català de Trànsit. In another accident, which occurred around 8:00 a.m. on the AP-7 as it passes through L’Ampolla (Tarragona), a baby of a few months was seriously injured, while another minor and three adults are in less serious condition, as reported by the Medical Emergency System (SEM).
These accidents arrive So far this year, according to this organization, 121 people have died on Catalan roads (the motorcyclist who died this Sunday is now added) in traffic accidents, six more than the same period last year. In these first ten months of the year, from January to October, there have also been 725 serious injuries, 10.6% more than in the same period of the previous year. Almost half of those killed on the roads (motorists, cyclists and pedestrians).
In the fatal accident this Sunday, the motorcyclist died when he left the road at kilometer 1.2 of the N-340 highway, which was closed after the accident. Three Mossos patrols, various units of the Generalitat Firefighters and three ambulances and a helicopter from the Medical Emergency System (SEM) have traveled to the scene of the accident. With today’s victim, there are 122 people who have died this year in traffic accidents on Catalan roads, of which 38 were motorcyclists.
The other accident took place minutes before eight in the morning at kilometer 308 of the AP-7 highway, heading south, where the vehicle in which the five victims were traveling left the road and overturned.
Four ambulances and an SEM helicopter went to the scene of the accident, with which they evacuated the baby to the Sant Joan de Déu hospital, in Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona). The ambulances have transferred the other minor and two adults to the Joan XXIII hospital in Tarragona, and another adult to the Verge de la Cinta hospital, in Tortosa (Tarragona).
