This Wednesday, the Marseille Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation for “involuntary manslaughter” after a bus from l’Hospitalet (Barcelona) that left two fatalities on a mountain road in the Pyrenees, a cause that includes the company of the vehicle and driver.
In a statement, the Prosecutor’s Office points out that there are still several injured people hospitalized, both in France and Spain, including the driver, and raises to 48 the number of occupants of the vehicle, which collided with a rocky ledge in the municipality of Porté-Puymorens. , near Andorra.
The investigation expressly refers to an alleged “deliberate violation of a particular obligation of prudence or safety by the driver.”
The bus from 2023, as confirmed by Government sources. The vehicle had left L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) for Andorra in the morning and was returning when it suffered the accident. The Government announced on Tuesday that it will begin an investigation process into the two companies involved in case they could be in a situation of irregularity. One of them could be in suspension of payments since the summer. The driver of the damaged bus operated a vehicle that he had rented four years ago from the company Hispa Bus and was the owner of another company, Chavi Tours, which for years did not have municipal licenses to operate as a coach garage in L’Hospitalet.
