Three people die and a baby is injured in a traffic accident in Bujalance

Three people have died and a baby has been injured in a traffic accident registered this Friday night in Bujalance (Córdoba) in which two cars were involved that ended up burning.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
01 September 2023 Friday 16:27
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Three people die and a baby is injured in a traffic accident in Bujalance

Three people have died and a baby has been injured in a traffic accident registered this Friday night in Bujalance (Córdoba) in which two cars were involved that ended up burning.

The 112 Andalucía Emergency service has detailed in a statement that the accident occurred minutes after 10 p.m. on Friday when several calls from drivers alerting of an accident between two cars that were beginning to burn on the A were answered on the 112 telephone line. -309, at kilometer 20 in the direction of Castro del Río. From 112, the Traffic Civil Guard, the Montoro Fire Department and the 061 Health Emergency Center (CES) were activated.

The meritorious has pointed out to Europa Press that the first indications point to a frontal collision as the cause of the accident. In addition, the agents have confirmed that the baby was not using an approved restraint system. The little girl was transferred to the Bujalance health center, from where she was evacuated to the Reina Sofía hospital in Córdoba. where she is stable.

Sources from 061 and the Fire Department have confirmed the death of three people, including a resident of the Priego de Córdoba municipality and another from Fernán Núñez. An animal also died in the accident.

For its part, the Fernán Núñez City Council has declared a day of official mourning in the municipality, during which the official flags will fly at half mast, as reported by the Municipal Corporation through its social networks, where it has expressed its condolences to the family of the deceased, a native of Montemayor but settled in the aforementioned town.

On the other hand, the mayor of Priego de Córdoba, Juan Ramón Valdivia, has given his "deepest condolences" to the family of the neighbor who died in the accident, who was traveling with the baby and has stressed through his Facebook account that " Only the miracle of the survival of the little girl, 14 days old, is consolation for our city and her relatives".