this Fatal accident suffered by the Gran Canaria family Romania occurred on a curve considered dangerous with a continuous double line, vertical signage warning road users and dead guards forcing them to slow down. The 63-year-old driver who caused the accident that killed four members of a group on the Romanian highway last Sunday a family from the capital’s Hoya Andrea neighborhood –parents José and María del Carmen Rodríguez and their daughters Alicia, 21 and Cristina, 15– He ignored the numerous signs that warned him of the danger of the department and decided to overtake a van. The Romanian Police launched an investigation to determine the causes of what happened and to take the statement of the person who caused the accident, who had to be hospitalized with serious injuries.
Rodríguez The Rodríguez family had traveled to central Romania to visit on 1 December. Daughter Alicia, a student in her fourth year of Elementary Education on University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and that he has benefited from the six-month Erasmus exchange program in the city of Sibiu in the Transylvania region. Two of his friends and classmates from ULPGC had traveled with him, with whom he shared his school years at the Colegio San Juan Bosco in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.. They had eight days ahead of them to spend with Alicia exploring Romania in a rented Dacia Logan, with which they would tour the main attractions, some of which they had previously captured in family photos.
public holiday in Romania
Sunday they had decided to visit the medieval city of Brasov.The most touristic place of Transylvania, located between the Carpathian mountains. On their way back, at night, they drove the DN1 national highway, called E68 on the European road network, which connects the country’s capital, Bucharest, with the border with Brasov, Sibiu and Hungary. When tragedy struck, shortly before nine o’clock at night, Due to the completion of the bridge on December 1, there was a lot of traffic on the road.It’s a public holiday in Romania, according to the national newspaper adevarul.ro.
The accident occurred at 294.5 kilometers, when the family was only 13 kilometers from their destination. Driving a BMW X3 SUV type (small SUV-like) vehicle, the driver who caused the accident crossed a long straight line where overtaking is prohibited. Before facing the corner where the fatal collision occurred, several soundtracks on the asphalt, along with vertical signaling and a continuous double line separating the two lanes, warn of the danger of the stage. None of these factors led the 63-year-old man to back down from his decision to overtake a minibus in the middle of a curve where the speed was limited to 50 kilometers per hour, Romanian police gave local media details.
dad was driving
As this newspaper erroneously reported on Tuesday, José Rodríguez, not his daughter Alicia, could not avoid the accident. The Dacia Logan collided head-on with the BMW and then received another blow from the back of the BMW 5 Series driven by a 20-year-old girl who emerged unscathed from the crash. While a large number of ambulances and firefighters were sent to the scene, trying to revive the mother and father, who had cardiac and respiratory arrest, did not succeed. Both died at the scene. Young Alicia managed to be transported alive to the Sibiu hospital, although her death was finally confirmed.and little 15-year-old Cristina, due to the severity of her injuries, remained in a coma until her death was confirmed two days after the accident.
The perpetrator of the accident was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Romanian police opened an investigation and in the absence of the driver’s evolution accused of manslaughter and manslaughter.
Just a day after this accident occurred, the city of Sibiu recorded another tragedy, in which one person died when two cars collided on a highway.