On the 19th July a car ‘landed’ outside Las Lagunas secondary school in Torrevieja. The car had left the road Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas to finally stop just outside the school on the playground. This is an area that on a normal working school day would be full of school children.
The car had ploughed through the perimeter fence and a service lane before finally coming to a halt. It was being driven by a woman at 9.50 in the morning and was travelling in the direction of Alicante. It is currently unknown how and why the woman lost control of the vehicle.
The Local Police were called to the accident and began to investigate how the car had ended up so far from the main road itself. It is estimated that its final resting place was 20 metres from the dual carriageway where it had been travelling.
It is believed that the car had just come off the controversial illegal roundabout and managed to travel across and demolish a number of barriers before finally stopping. It was a lucky escape for the school children who use this area and would have been there had it not been holiday time.
Las Lagunas secondary school is the largest in Torrevieja and has 1,200 students including evening classes. The school has raised its concerns on a number of occasions about the Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas which used to serve as the old N-332.
This part of the road became a dual carriageway in the nineties and the roundabout was built there illegally in the year 2000. Since then there have been attempts to organise its demolition and recover the money from the company who built it. However, this company, JOST, are now no longer trading.