An incident involving a bus and a truck transporting passenger cars was reported on the A-7 highway, between Ribera and Costera counties, during this afternoon. The collision prompted a protective closure for several kilometers in the southbound direction, according to authorities monitoring traffic flow.
⚠️ Attention A7 near 391 km due to a crash between a truck and a bus that caused a slowdown. Health authorities indicate that a number of people have received medical attention, including basic life support units and unassisted transports.
In total, 52 passengers plus the driver were aboard the bus. The event was shared by regional emergency services and posted on social media by the emergency response coordination.
Officials from the regional emergency coordination center confirmed the response included police traffic units, ambulances, and fire crews to the affected area.
Medical teams attended to twenty-two individuals after the collision in the vicinity of Xátiva, as reported by CICU. The incident occurred on the A-7 at kilometre 391 around the late afternoon, and medical resources deployed included three basic life support units, a standard ambulance, and a primary care medical team. Medical services assisted eighteen injured people, comprising nine women, eight men, and one minor.
Two women aged nineteen, one woman aged eighteen, and two men aged twenty-two and thirty-five were transported to Ontinyent hospital by a primary life support ambulance. In a separate SVB unit, four other patients with contusions were moved to Lluís Alcany’s hospital in Xátiva. The ages included an eighteen-year-old woman and three men aged twenty-four, twenty-six, and fifty-seven.
A third SVB ambulance evacuated three additional women, aged eighteen, twenty-five, and thirty-eight, to the Francesc Borja hospital in Gandia. Several individuals sustained facial cuts and bruises. A conventional ambulance later conveyed six more injured people to La Ribera hospital in Alzira, including three women aged eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-five, two men aged twenty-two and thirty-two, and a boy under seventeen.
Announcement at 16:00
Valencian firefighters reported an incident involving a bus and a truck on the A-7 near Beneixida, with two firefighters and a sergeant responding to the scene. Medical staff described the scene as congested with affected individuals receiving attention.
Regional fire services confirmed the first alerts were received in the late afternoon for a crash between two heavy vehicles, a bus and a truck. A two-firefighter team and a supervising officer arrived on site as medical personnel attended those affected.
Source notes indicate the incident was in proximity to Beneixida, with coordination between the traffic authorities and emergency services to secure the area and provide medical care to those involved.