shock for the triple fatal hit-and-run occurred this Tuesday in the Cantabrian town of Suesa, where three people died after being run over by a 73-year-old man who later tested positive for alcohol and drugs. The victims were walking along a pedestrian walkway next to the highway when the driver lost control of the vehicle, left the road and hit them, almost immediately ending their lives.

“We heard a big crash and that’s when I realized that on the road there was a person lying“, recounts Jesús Ángel, who witnessed the lethal attack. “I approached him, felt his pulse and saw that he was already dead,” says the witness, visibly affected. The other two people, he says, “had weak pulsations,” but When the emergency teams arrived, nothing could be done to save them.”The victims are from here at the campsite and they are like family“, he explains, on the verge of tears.

The deceased are a 42-year-old woman, her 19-year-old son and a 68-year-old family friend. As explained by the Government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, “they were walking along a path near the Somo campsite, where they were staying” when the driver “left the road and ran over them”.

The driver, provisionally released

Driver nearly tripled the permitted alcohol rate and also tested positive for drugs, specifically for cannabis. After taking his statement, in which he only answered the questions from his lawyer, the judge put him on Wednesday probationary release without bailwith the obligation to appear weekly before the court, the prohibition to leave the national territory and the precautionary withdrawal of the driving license.

As can be seen from the order, quoted by Europa Press, the man He was circulating with a rate of 0.73 mg/l of alcohol in his blood at an “indeterminate speed” higher than the regulation, which was 50 kilometers per hour.

When entering a curve, the car details, “it would have lost control of the vehicle, it would have gone off the road, running over three people who were wandering in the pedestrian lane, to later hit a container, bounce off the center of the road and, unable to avoid it despite swerving, collide with another vehicle, later leaving the road and crashing against a tree.”

According to the Efe news agency, the man has presented medical reports certifying that he is under psychiatric treatment for depression and “has had suicide attempts in the past.” “It is considered that the prison measure would deepen this delicate mental situation that is presumed to be investigated,” reasons the judge, who has ruled out the risk of flight and recidivism, since “there is no criminal record” and it is an elderly person advanced, “known” in Suesa and “without excessive escape capacity”.

“It has been a very big tragedy for this municipality,” said the mayor of Ribamontán al Mar, Francisco Asón, whose City Council has decreed three days of mourning.