Four people, one of whom was a minor, died in the early hours of a hit-and-run on Sunday in Torrejon de Ardoz, on the outskirts of Madrid. According to the ABC newspaper, the police have already arrested a 35-year-old Portuguese man and two Spanish minors, aged 17 and 16, as alleged perpetrators of the hit-and-run.
They were arrested an hour after the event, about 40 km from the crime scene.
The father and two sons drove around in a Toyota Corolla with the lights off and the front bumper missing. The front glass had two holes at the driver’s level and hangs. Authorities also found thousands of euros in notes of 10, 20, 50 and 100 in the vehicle. There were also traces of blood on the dashboard of the car.
A fourth occupant of the vehicle, who fled on foot, is still wanted by authorities, but has already been identified by authorities. It will be the driver’s cousin.
The hit and run took place after an argument in the street, next to the restaurant where the wedding between two gypsy families had been celebrated.
#SUMMA112 confirms the deaths of four people this morning after being run over on Avenida de la Constitución en #TorrejondeArdoz🇧🇷
The circumstances under which the success took place are being investigated by @Police🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/avDX9jNGoR
– 112 Community of Madrid (@112cmadrid) Nov 6, 2022
A woman aged 70 and three men aged 40, 60 and 17 died at the scene, with fractures and multiple traumas, Spanish authorities said.
Ten more people were injured, four of them seriously.
Emergency medical teams from the Red Cross, a municipal ambulance and elements of the Civil Defense, who arrived on the scene, assisted four seriously injured people: two women aged 31 and 30 and two men aged 50 and 30. 43 years old, all transferred to different hospitals nearby.
The collision, which happened at 2:40 AM (1:40 AM in Lisbon), also caused “potentially serious” injuries, according to emergency medical teams SUMMA112, in two men, ages 21 and 50, who were taken to hospital in Torrejon.
Two other people, a 20-year-old man with an open fracture, were taken to the Príncipe de Asturias Hospital in Alcalá de Henares, and a 17-year-old woman with multiple bruises, who was discharged from the accident site, were considered. as minor injuries.
SUMMA112 activated the Multiple Victim Incident Procedure (MIV), with a total of 22 medical teams visiting the scene, including SUMMA112’s psychologist on duty, who had to treat several anxiety attacks among the victims’ relatives.
Source: DN
