two trucks fall off an embankment, leaving two injured and kilometers of traffic jams on the M-50

Two semi-trailers fell this morning along an embankment of the M-50, in the municipality of Alcorcón, which caused the vehicles to catch fire, leaving two drivers injured, informed Europe Press a spokesperson for the Madrid Emergency Community 112.

The spectacular accident, the causes of which are currently the subject of an investigation by the Civil Guard of Traffic, occurred Thursday after 9:45 a.m., at kilometer 65 of the ring road, at the height of the Watchtower. One of the trailers transported livestock and wooden pallets and the other transported refrigerators and refrigerators.

Summa-112 paramedics attended the scene and treated the two drivers and the sole occupants of the traumatized vehicles, who were evacuated by ambulance. potentially serious injuries at both hospitals.

The firefighters arrived on site. Alcorcón Town Hallwho asked for help from those in the Community of Madrid. Together they put out the fire in the two trucks that remained in the ravine and by 10:45 a.m. they were already cooling them down. They also asked local police to confine residents to neighboring houses in an urbanization due to the intense black smoke generated by the fire.

At 10:30 a.m., the accident caused traffic jams on the M-50 between kilometer 71 Boadilla del Monte up to 65 in the Campodón area and between kilometers 79 and 75 towards the A-5, in the northwest urbanizations, according to data from the General Traffic Directorate (DGT).

Motorcycle accident in Fuencarral

In recent years, another road accident has been recorded. A 58-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured this Thursday morning after a slight collision with a car and being thrown against a billboard in the Madrid district of Fuencarral, as a Madrid emergency spokesperson reported to Europa Press.

Around 7:20 a.m., at full height 8 Sinesio Delgado Streetwitnesses saw how the motorcyclist hit the car, then flew off and crashed into an advertising marquee.

When Samur Civil Protection arrived at the scene of the incident, National Police officers were treating the man. The emergency services continued treatment afterwards, he was intubated and transferred to hospital with serious prognosis from La Paz after suffering serious head trauma following the impact.