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Overnight Crashes in Spain Leave Three Dead

The crashes sharpen focus on road safety after Catalonia counted 38 traffic deaths this year.

Overview

  • Two separate road crashes in Catalonia and Madrid late Friday into early Saturday left three drivers dead and a passenger injured.
  • In Montblanc (Tarragona), a head-on collision on the N-240 killed both drivers, a 27-year-old from L'Espluga de Francolí and a 50-year-old from El Pont d'Armentera.
  • Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalan firefighters and emergency medics extricated the victims, and the route stayed closed overnight with traffic still restricted in the morning.
  • Near El Molar on the A-1 north of Madrid, a 25-year-old died after his car hit a truck and was struck by a trailing car, and a 51-year-old woman was taken to La Paz hospital.
  • Police opened separate investigations led by Mossos and the Guardia Civil, and the Montblanc fatalities pushed Catalonia’s 2026 road-death count to 38.