A under 17 years old was crushed and killed on a level crossing at the station at the station Montcada And Reixac, in Barcelona. The accident happened this Monday, around 3 p.m., when two young people crossed the track at the level crossing while the barrier was down. The train driver tested positive for several drugs in a test that Mossos of the Squara were carried out after the accident.
Agents of the Catalan force They opened an investigation to clarify the facts, which they initially considered an accident. The train, which was traveling between Portbou and Sants, was making a semi-direct journey and had no scheduled stop at the station. Montcada and Reixac. Sources close to the case said the train was probably “on autopilot,” which could have made it difficult to stop. Investigators will now have to analyze the black box to determine the causes of the accident and check “how fast the train was going and whether it was correct.” The driver has not been arrested, according to sources from the Moss.
The accident forced rail traffic to be interrupted on the lines R2, R2 North and the R11 des Rodalies between the city and Barcelona’s Sant Andreu station, as reported by Renfe. Civil defense The Generalitat has activated the Emergency Plan for passenger rail transport in Catalonia between approximately 3:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
The municipal council of Montcada and Reixac, in Barcelona and the platform Just Underground Total Tract They called on the citizens of the city, at the intersection of Colon and Bogatell streets, this Tuesday, at noon, to observe a minute of silence in memory of the 17-year-old girl who was crushed at a level crossing in the city. The young woman who died this Monday is victim number 182 overturned on municipal roads. The last one had happened only two weeks earlier.
