Four accidents involving five trucks on the AP-7 leave one dead and cuts for ten hours

Four accidents involving five trucks, in which one person died and another was seriously injured, have forced the AP-7 motorway to be completely closed to traffic this Saturday in the province of Tarragona and, partially, in Barcelona, ​​heading north. These cuts are expected to last for ten hours, as reported by the Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT).

As detailed by the director of the Servei Català de Trànsit, Ramon Lamiel, around five in the morning the first of the accidents occurred near Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona), when a truck transporting lettuce overturned at kilometer 273.1 of the AP-7, heading towards Barcelona.

Subsequently, it was "in the queue that generated this accident", explained Lamiel, when a collision occurred between two trucks, at kilometer 274, as a result of which the driver of one of the vehicles died.

Trànsit has enabled detours through exit 281 in Vandellòs i L'Hospitalet de l'Infant (Tarragona) towards the A7, which in that section runs close to the AP-7, to reconnect with the motorway. Lamiel explained that Trànsit and the Mossos have been able to enable a lane on the highway road to remove the vehicles that had been trapped between the two accidents, work that has already been carried out.

Ten hours of cutoff on the AP-7

On the other hand, the director of Trànsit has indicated in statements to Catalunya Ràdio that the work to remove the overturned truck that was transporting lettuce could take about ten hours.

Lamiel has detailed that the load must be removed from this truck and it is a "complex" process, in which more than two cranes of different types will be necessary.

One seriously injured when a truck and a van collide

On the other hand, the AP-7 highway has also been closed in the Barcelona direction at Santa Margarida i els Monjos (Barcelona). In this case, the accident occurred when a truck and a van collided, an impact as a result of which the driver of this second vehicle was seriously injured.

Trànsit, in this case, has enabled alternative detours along the C-32 highway and the N-340 while work is being done on the removal of the two vehicles and traffic in the direction of Barcelona is progressively recovered.

Added to this is a fourth accident recorded early in the morning on the AP-7 near Tarragona, where the accident of another truck has forced a southbound lane to be closed to traffic.