Some particularly eventful maneuvers at the San Gregorio field in Zaragoza. Three soldiers were injured as a result of the crushing of the truck going downhill without brakes.anyone. The victims in the tent saw nothing; The driver of the refrigerated truck and his partner who will help it unload are on trial for injury.
The investigation, conducted by the Regional Military Court of Togado No. 32, is based on an investigation into events dating back to last May, although the charges against two members of the Spanish Armed Forces are new following an internal investigation.
It happened around 17:10. The Alfas group of various companies was in the area known as Hoya del Borracho when a refrigerated truck came to unload food into the kitchen, this newspaper learned. searched driver, He pulled the parking brake and told a nearby colleague to help him.. He was armed with rifle and trenches, so he asked him to take it out. To go more conveniently during downloading. Apparently, threw it on one of the seats, hit the parking brake and it started going downhill. He ran 300 meters.
The bad luck was that there was a tent with tents in it on the plain. three corporals wounded. One with a sprain, the other with a torn meniscus, the other with a torn outer malleolus. They heard shouting to get out, but they didn’t know it was meant for them.
In the technical report of the accident, it is evaluated that the most likely cause of the accident was “inadvertent manipulation of the parking brake lever”. In the investigators’ view, the defendants, now supported by lawyers Carmen Sánchez Herrero and Marías Jesús Casanova, “had to make sure that the brake lever was correctly positioned in the brake sights. taking safety measures such as chocks as well as turning the wheels to avoid maximum slope”. According to the workshop experts who inspected the vehicle, the vehicle was in excellent condition and the engine was running.
The victims, represented by lawyer Sergio Escobedo, told the robed presiding judge: they were inside the field hospital They got a theory about throwing grenades when they suddenly heard screams and “very powerful blows that sounded like bombs”. “I jumped as far as I could, but soon I felt the structure of the tent fall on my back,” one of the victims said.
The person who threw his gun on the seat by touching the handbrake said that his friend told him to leave the rifle to unload it and he decided to do it on the driver’s seat, which fell in a horizontal position. Eight seconds after I put the truck there, it started moving downhill. no chance to stop.