Justice · Bus crashBarcelona bus crash: 29 hospitalized, 12 serious after 20-metre plungeAired October 26, 2026 at 10:35 PM UTCWritten October 26, 2026 at 10:37 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07A bus plunged about twenty meters down a steep embankment.0:10Twenty-nine people remain in hospital, twelve of them in serious condition.0:14Emergency medical teams attended to eighty-seven people, and no deaths have been0:18reported.0:19Investigators still have to explain why the bus left the road.0:21The bus fell from the BV5000,114 in Fogars de Moncolles in Barcelona Province.0:27The crash happened on Sunday afternoon, October25, in the Monsignor area.0:32Monday's hospital figures describe the aftermath of that crash.0:35Passengers were returning from a day in Montcenit Natural Park.0:38They were traveling on line five seventy-three, a scheduled bus service.0:42The journey ended on a steep slope below the road, where emergency crews faced0:46difficult access as they reached the passengers.0:49Emergency medical services attended to eighty-seven people altogether.0:52By Monday evening, twenty-nine remained hospitalized, including twelve described as0:56serious.0:57The eighty-seven includes everyone attended by medical teams.1:00The twenty-nine counts those who were still admitted.1:03The medical picture has changed substantially from the early figures.1:06But the changing totals don't tell us how any individual patient's condition1:09changed.1:10Emergency assessments, injury classifications, and the number of people occupying1:13hospital beds measured different things.1:15They also describe different stages of the response.1:17Early figures put injuries at eighty with four serious cases.1:21Emergency services had already counted eighty-three on Sunday.1:24That breakdown included seven seriously injured, eighteen less seriously injured,1:28and fifty, eight with minor injuries.1:30Those figures preceded Monday evening's medical update.1:33Some early counts included all eighty-three people attended by medical teams.1:37That helps explain why the words used around these numbers need care.1:40Medical teams haven't explained the rise from eighty-three to eighty-seven or fully1:44reconciled the changes in severity classifications.1:46Earlier on Monday, about fifty people were still in hospital.1:50Nine patients were spread across critical, semi-critical, and recovery or1:53resuscitation units.1:54A subsequent hospital count fell from thirty, seven to twenty, nine.1:58The latest number still admitted.1:59The nine patients in those units and the twelve later described as serious belonged2:03to different clinical groupings.2:04The unit figures don't give a separate count of critically ill patients, and the2:08hospital snapshots don't provide a complete timed account of every admission and2:13discharge.2:13Many passengers managed to get out of the bus themselves.2:16Others needed help during a rescue on steep, hard to reach ground.2:20The roughly twenty Metrodrop left crews working below the road, with difficult2:24access adding to the challenge.2:25An early evacuation count put the number rescued at eighty, three and mentioned2:29seven people hospitalized at that stage.2:31Hospital admissions continued to be counted afterward.2:34The later figure of twenty, nine still in hospital shows the much broader medical2:38consequence of the crash.2:39The bus fell on October twenty-fifth.2:41On October twenty-sixth, firefighters and company technicians prepared a large crane2:45recovery.2:45The vehicle was subsequently removed, allowing firefighters to complete their2:49inspection and rule out additional victims beneath or around it.2:52Firefighters had earlier considered additional victims highly unlikely.2:55Recovering the vehicle let them check areas it had concealed.2:58No deaths have been reported.3:00With those checks completed, investigators are examining how a scheduled bus3:03carrying passengers home from the park came to leave the road.3:06An early claim that the bus struck a car conflicts with the police position.3:09Catalan police have provisionally excluded another vehicle or third party.3:13They're also investigating whether too many passengers were traveling standing up.3:16Police haven't concluded that the bus exceeded its permitted capacity or that3:20standing passengers caused the crash.3:22The cause remains under investigation.3:24By Monday evening, twenty nine people were still in hospital, twelve of them in3:29serious condition.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗
