The Judicial Traffic Police Station of the Madrid Municipal Police will charge the two drivers who collided early Saturday morning in the industrial zone of La Atalayuela, in Villa de Vallecas, with careless driving. As a result of the incident, both pilots and the passenger of one of them were injured. This newspaper then announced that everything indicated that it was an illegal car race, as was ultimately proven.
It is now not excluded to extend the investigation also to crimes of injury committed by the same accused. One of the three seriously injured people, trapped in the iron mass by their legs and who had to be freed by the Town Hall firefighters, remained in serious condition at the time of going to press.
The events took place around 12:45 a.m., at the confluence of Sierra de la Demanda and Real de San Vicente streets, a little-crowded area located near La Gavia Park and known for having previously hosted this type of betting, to the point that the town hall had to place flower pots in its streets.
Two Volkswagen Golfs, one gray and the other white, collided head-on, leaving the driver of one of them, a 34-year-old man from the Embajadores neighborhood, stranded. interior. After a warning by plainclothes officers from the local force, firefighters, paramedics and other police officers from the district arrived.
The two occupants of the other gray vehicle, broken on the spot, arrived at the Infanta Leonor Hospital in Vallecas and the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, transported by friends present at the scene of the accident. They are both 20 years old.
Municipal Police officers who arrived at the scene verified that a large number of vehicles were concentrated there and that there were brakes at the scene of the accident. They are currently investigating the footage of the illegal race and have interviewed friends and acquaintances of the injured who were with them at the time to determine the causes and reasons for what happened.
For his part, the government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, made a proclamation yesterday: “All messages of caution and responsibility are important. “This call to do things right.”
The agents quickly suspected an illegal race, since the industrial zone of La Atalayuela has long been the scene of these bets, to the point that the town hall had to place huge flower pots in its vials just before the pandemic. .
