The escaped driver is delivered after the fatal accidents on the Paseo de Extremadura

MADRID, 27 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The driver of the vehicle that this Thursday fatally ran over two people on the Paseo de Extremadura has been arrested after turning himself in at a Latina National Police station, as reported by the Madrid Police Headquarters.

The 31-year-old man, identified as P.V.S., had fled on foot after the fatal collisions, which have left two people dead and several injured. Sources of the investigation have pointed out that he did not have a valid driver's license and had a record for theft of catalysts and a valid requisition.

There are two other occupants detained at the scene, between Paseo de Extremadura and Saavedra Fajardo street: a man injured with bruises and a woman who was traveling with an eight-month-old baby, the latter two unharmed.

According to sources from the Civil Guard of Traffic, the Mercedes model car was detected at 12:50 p.m. at kilometer 6,406 of the A-5, in Leganés, with a minor traveling in the arms of an adult, without the regulatory restraint. .

The Civil Guard stopped him and they fled along the M-406 (Alcorcón-Getafe), to then drive along the A-4098 and M-50, until they reached Paseo de Extremadura.

It was on this road in the capital where the attacks were recorded shortly before 1:00 p.m. in three different locations, causing the death of two people and the injury of five others.

Thus, at number 154 of Paseo de Extremadura, SAMUR-Civil Protection has confirmed the death of a 72-year-old man and has attended a couple of about 65 years old who were discharged in the place and a 90-year-old woman , which has been transferred for evaluation.

On the other hand, at number 88, the doctors have confirmed the death of an 81-year-old man, whose relatives have had to be attended by a SAMUR psychologist.

Likewise, at number 1, at the confluence of Paseo Extremadura with Saavedra Fajardo, the SAMUR has treated two people, one for minor bruises and the other for an anxiety crisis. The SAMUR-Civil Protection psychologist has also gone to communicate the news to relatives of the first deceased.

MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSUMES THE INVESTIGATION

In statements to the media from the place of the collision, Fernando Argote Cardeñosa, commissioner of the Judicial Traffic Police of the Municipal Police of Madrid, who has taken charge of the investigation, explained that the driver of the vehicle has managed to flee the scene, according to the first indications, and it is about locating him.

In this sense, the commissioner, who has asked for prudence as he is "in full investigation", has explained that it is a vehicle "that came from afar" and that it has fled from the Civil Guard of Traffic and in the flight has overwhelmed these people.

"From now on, what we are going to do is all the necessary work by the Judicial Traffic Police of the Municipal Police of Madrid, in order to finally be able to determine how it has been, the causes, the consequences, everything there is, because what there are are two victims who are the ones that I think we should do justice," he stressed.

Thus, he explained that the tourism involved will be thoroughly reviewed for inspection and search for traces and clues. At first glance, he has indicated, the state in which the windshield has been left, indicates that "it was not going at low speed".

"What we are going to do is an investigation as exhaustive as possible so that in the end both the Prosecutor's Office and the Court determine if it could have been reckless or not, or it could have been something intentional. But according to all appearances and even if they want to, I get wet , it is reckless", indicated the commissioner, who has specified that recklessness does not mean an accident. "It is an accident that could have been avoided and of some people who have fled from a vehicle", * he has * explained him.