Erasmus bus crash

On 20 March 2016, a Tata Hispano passenger bus carrying Erasmus students from several countries coming from the Fallas Festival in Valencia to Barcelona collided with a car on the Autopista AP-7 motorway, near the town of Freginals.^[1] Thirteen died – all of them young female students.^[2]

Erasmus bus crash
Details
Date	20 March 2016
Location	Freginals, Catalonia, Spain
Incident type	traffic accident
Cause	Under investigation, weariness of the driver (suspected)
Statistics
Deaths	13
Injured	43
Damage	A bus

Emergency services confirmed that the students on the affected bus were from 20 countries or territories: France, the Netherlands, Finland, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Poland, Ireland, the Palestinian territories, Japan and Ukraine.^[2]

The fatalities were seven Italians, two Germans, a Romanian, an Uzbek, a French and an Austrian.^[3]

The bus driver died of a heart attack on 6 April 2023.^[4]