Madrid/Santander (EFE)
Thus, in the first test it gave 0.73 milligrams of alcohol per liter of breath (0.25 is the allowed limit) and in a second control it gave 0.70.
The sources have specified that the man, who is admitted to a hospital, remains in custody and is charged with the crimes of reckless homicide and reckless driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
After the accident, the Civil Guard agents carried out the corresponding tests and the alcohol and drug tests came back positive.
The events occurred around 8:00 p.m. at kilometer 0.6 of the CA-433 regional highway. The driver lost control of the vehicle and left the road, running over the three victims who were walking in the company of relatives on the pedestrian walkway next to the road.
The deceased are a woman and her son, aged 42 and 19, residents of Sestao (Vizcaya), and another woman, a 68-year-old resident of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja).
All of them are regular customers of the Somo Parque de Suesa campsite, which opens during holiday periods and is a tourist asset for an area that lives from this sector.
Three days of mourning in Ribamontán al Mar
The municipality of Ribamontán al Mar has decreed three days of mourning for the multiple fatal accident that occurred yesterday afternoon next to a campsite in the town of Suesa, an event that, according to its mayor, Francisco Asón, has “dismayed” to the neighbors, because it is “the worst of those that are remembered”.
“It is a huge blow for a municipality and for a campsite that is connected to the town and to tourism,” the mayor acknowledged in statements to EFE, who still has not explained the causes of the death of three people when they were passing through the pedestrian walkway next to the road, along with other family members.
Regarding the driver of the vehicle, the mayor explained that he knows him because he has lived in Ribamontán al Mar for years, but that he has not been able to speak with him after the accident because he was taken by ambulance to the Valdecilla Hospital. cold water”, the mayor has reiterated”.
The manager of the Somo Parque de Suesa campsite, Emilio Valle, has stated with emotion that he is “sunk” because the families of the three people who died in the accident were “his people” and he is going to “miss them” after frequenting the facilities regularly for years 20 years.
Valle has pointed out, in statements to EFE, that the accident has been “something brutal” and that the feeling in this seasonal campsite is one of “general sadness” due to the loss of people with whom he had a close and family relationship.
Very affected by what happened and without having slept during the night, it is still not explained what could have happened for the vehicle to leave the road, an event after which, he has recognized, it will be difficult to recover normality in the campsite , which reopened its doors on March 24, on the occasion of the arrival of Easter. “They arrived two days ago with all the illusion in the world and now they are leaving with irreparable pain,” Valle has sentenced.
