Although the Civil Guard reported that there was no one stuck on the road, the truth is that this is not the case. LaSexta managed to contact José Manuel Martins, truck driver.He has been stuck on the A7 for three dayssince six o’clock last Tuesday October 29, when the storm surprised him. So far, he has not received any food or water from the authorities.
“Nothing about shopping,” he says, just “half a sandwich and a bottle of water” brought to him by neighbors from “Torrente,” the neighboring town. “They brought us the little that these people had,” he emphasizes in this telephone call, in which he reports that there are “four colleagues” in his cabin who also have their trucks stuck. “We watch them from here,” he said. But they’re not the only ones stuck on this road. He reports that “there are twenty or more truckers” nearby.
“We saw the Civil Guard in uniform, because the road sank a few kilometers back,” he reports, adding that “there is a sinkhole.” “They asked us if we were okay and if we had any water. They also told us they didn’t know when they could clean the roads,” he said.
