3 Irish students on board the bus involved in horrific Spanish motorway crash

A number of Irish students were on board a bus that was involved in a deadly motorway crash involving a bus and a car on AP-7 motorway between Barcelona and Valencia.

13 students died in the horrific crash, while a further 40 were injured in the accident when the bus collided with an oncoming car at around 6am this morning. There were around 60 students on board the bus, three of which have been confirmed as Irish.

They are erasmus students from University College Cork that have been studying in Spain this year. Two of the students suffered no injuries whatsoever, while the third student suffered only minor injuries.

The students were on their way back to Barcelona from the famous Las Fallas festival, and most of them are understood to be students in the University of Barcelona.

The accident is understood to have happened when the driver lost control of the bus, before careering through a crash barrier and hitting into the oncoming car.