A SPECTACULAR crash between two lorries and two cars on the A-7 motorway through the Murcia Region has left three dead and four seriously injured.
One of the refrigeration lorries veered over the central reservation and overturned and another collided with it, causing both to burst into flames, which spread to one of the two cars which ran into them.
The driver and passenger of the burning car, and the driver of the first lorry which overturned were killed by the fire.
Another man, who was at the wheel of the second lorry, suffered very serious burns and multiple broken bones, whilst the driver and passenger of the second car and a Guardia Civil officer had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
Five ambulances, a helicopter, the Guardia Civil and the fire brigade rushed to the scene, and the four injured parties were taken to different hospitals including the Virgen de la Arrixaca and the Reina Sofía.
The motorway was blocked off in a southbound direction at the site of the accident – in the tied hamlet of Monteagudo towards the coast north of its 'parent' municipality, Murcia city – and traffic was diverted down the RM-423, rejoining the A-7 further down.
Intermittent tailbacks were reported in a northbound direction.
The multiple tragedy, recorded at exactly 14.33hrs yesterday (Saturday), was one of three fatal crashes in the region within minutes of each other.
A driver became trapped in his car on the RM-424 between the wine-producing town of Yecla, and Pinoso, at kilometre 15.5, and had died before the fire brigade was able to cut him free from the wreckage.
A woman driving the second car involved in the crash, recorded at 14.17hrs, managed to get out by herself.
Just three hours later on the high street, or C/ Mayor in El Raal – a tied hamlet of Murcia – a motorbike and a car smashed into each other opposite number 393.
A man was taken to the Reina Sofía hospital, and a woman went into cardiact arrest at the scene.
Medics continued to work on trying to revive her as the Armed Forces emergency response unit took her to hospital, but she passed away before she reached the centre.
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