:Erasmus bus crash

{{short description|2016 road incident in Spain}}

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| date = 20 March 2016

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| location = Freginals, Catalonia, {{flagicon|Spain}} Spain

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| type = traffic accident

| cause = Under investigation, weariness of the driver (suspected)

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| deaths = 13

| injuries = 43

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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.{{Cite web|title = Spain student bus crash victims 'all young foreign women'|url = http://www.euronews.com/2016/03/20/at-least-14-dead-after-bus-carrying-students-crashes-in-spain/|website = Euronews| date=20 March 2016 |access-date = 2016-03-21|language = en-US}} Thirteen died – all of them young female students.{{Cite web|title = 13 Exchange Students Killed When Bus Crashes in Spanish Catalonia|url = https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/bus-carrying-erasmus-students-crashes-catalonia-killing-least-14-people-n542161|website = NBC News| date=21 March 2016 |access-date = 2016-03-21}}

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.

The fatalities were seven Italians, two Germans, a Romanian, an Uzbek, a French and an Austrian.{{cite web|url=https://esn.it/it/news/aggiornamento-sulla-vicenda-spagnola|title=Aggiornamento sulla vicenda spagnola|work=ESN|date=21 March 2016|language=Italian}}

The bus driver died of a heart attack on 6 April 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.torinotoday.it/cronaca/incidente-stradale/morto-infarto-autista-bus-serena-saracino.html|title=La morte di Serena Saracino resta senza colpevoli: l'autista del bus è morto di infarto|work=Torino Today|date=7 April 2023|language=Italian}}