Cádiz remains distraught a day after a bus lost control and fatally ran over three people on Avenida de las Cortes, at the entrance to the Cadiz city through the Constitution Bridge. The accident, caused by the loss of the vehicle's brakes, also left around thirty people injured of varying severity, one of them in a critical situation. This is a Portuguese octogenarian who was in the city doing tourism and who had to be evacuated to the Puerta del Mar Hospital, where he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, although the Andalusian Government has announced today that he is stable within the gravity.
One day after the fatal event, the Cádiz city council has called a rally at the doors of the building to observe 5 minutes of silence in memory of the deceased: a 17-year-old young man, a 19-year-old girl and a 60-year-old woman, all of them. pedestrians who were traveling on the road at the time the tragedy occurred. In the Town Hall, the Banner of Cádiz flies at half-mast as a sign of mourning on this first day of mourning decreed by the city's mayor, Bruno García.
The investigation into the events continues while the displays of pain continue to occur. The residents of the Astilleros neighborhood are still trying to digest what happened yesterday shortly after 3:30 p.m., when the vehicle jumped the median of one of the busiest roads in the city, invaded the oncoming lanes, and uprooted several palm trees. and traffic signs in its path and spread panic in the vicinity of the Bahía de Cádiz Shopping Center. An hour before, the street was full of schoolchildren leaving their educational centers. Shortly after, there was a shift change for employees at a department store.
It seemed like it was going to be just another Monday but everything turned black. For three people, three pedestrians who were traveling down the street with different objectives, their lives were broken.
The 60-year-old woman who lost her life in the accident was a native of El Puerto de Santa María. She had just retired a month ago, according to Diario de Cádiz, after a life dedicated to education. She had worked for 17 years at an institute in this Cadiz town, at the IES José de Lara, and now plans to enjoy her leisure and relaxation time. Her classmates still cannot digest this sad news.
The 17-year-old boy from Chiclana de la Frontera was also hit by the bus. In the municipality's town hall the flags are at half-mast as a sign of mourning and as a gesture of support in the pain of the victim's relatives.
A violin was also left lying on the floor. It was owned by the 19-year-old girl who was going to classes at the Conservatory and who was part of the Campos Andaluces Young Philharmonic Orchestra. She was from Castilleja de la Cuesta, in Seville, but she had moved her residence to Tacita de Plata.
Three lives cut short in this accident that has shocked an entire city, a score of injured people who still need time to digest the event as well as the neighbors and witnesses of the accident who are trying to return to normality with great difficulty.
A team of psychologists from the Territorial Delegation of Education of the Government of Andalusia has traveled to the IES Drago in Cádiz to assist the classmates and teachers of this center, where the 19-year-old girl and the 17-year-old boy were from, Both died in the bus accident that occurred this Monday.
"Yesterday was a very sad day for our educational community. We lost two wonderful students. A kiss to heaven for them from our white cube," IES Drago wrote in a message on its Facebook page. "Your youth, freshness, talent will always be with us," added the center, stating that they join "despite their families."
The colleagues, who came this Tuesday dressed in black as a sign of mourning, are "very affected" by these deaths and since early in the morning they have been intervening with counselors from the Inspection and the Educational Planning service, assisting teachers and students. , as confirmed by the Territorial Delegation of Education.
