The truck driver who caused six deaths by running over a Civil Guard checkpoint is released without bail

Andros Lozano

Updated Friday, March 22, 2024-13:08

The Investigative Court number 4 of Utrera (Seville) has released the

59-year-old truck driver from Huelva

who this past Tuesday caused the death of six people, two of them civil guards, by not stopping his vehicle at a marked checkpoint in the city. Armed Institute on the A4 highway, near the Sevillian town of Los Palacios and Villafranca. The accident occurred around 4:30 a.m. The judge has ordered his release without bail, as requested by the lawyer Alejandro Acebal, HL's lawyer.

The driver who caused the accident is being investigated for the alleged commission of six crimes of recklessness and another five of injuries (for the five more injuries he caused). In the release order, to which EL MUNDO has access, the head of the court indicates that

HL tested negative for alcohol and drugs

, and that the accident could have occurred due to "a mistake or negligence", although it has not been could be related so far to excessive speed, since it was traveling at 90 kilometers per hour.

The vehicle was traveling at 90 kilometers per hour when it lost control.

At this procedural moment, the judge refrains

from classifying the truck driver's recklessness as serious, so he decides to release him and let a court, in the event of a trial, classify his actions, which could entail a mere fine. or jail.

According to the first data that has emerged from the investigation, the vehicle was traveling at

90 kilometers per hour

when it lost control and there are apparently no signs of braking on the asphalt.

The deceased civil guards are Corporal 1st

Eneko Lira Gómez

and agent

Juan Jesús López Álvarez.

There are also three other seriously injured Civil Guard agents who have been transferred to three hospitals in Seville. All of them are members of the so-called

Rapid Action Group (GAR),

integrated within the Rural Action Unit (UAR) of the Civil Guard, who had moved

from their base in Logroño

to reinforce the

fight against drug trafficking

in Andalusia.

For their part, the four fatalities who were traveling in private vehicles are a resident of

Dos Hermanas

, in the province of Seville, a man from Cádiz who, according to the Subdelegation in said province, would be a resident of

Barbate

, a citizen of

Ceuta

and a foreign citizen, whose nationality has not been specified.