A truck driver dies after overturning his vehicle on AP-68, near Zambrana

a truck drivera 39-year-old male, has passed away registered today in an accident in the AP-68as it passes through Zambrana (Álava), as reported by the Basque Ministry of Security to eitb.eus.

The incident occurred at 7:05 am on the aforementioned highway towards Zaragoza. For unknown reasons, the vehicle left the road and overturned.

The truck driver has left trapped in the vehicle and members of the fire brigade had to free him. Soon after, the medical services dispatched to the scene confirmed his death.

One lane of AP-68 is blocked, although there are no traffic jams.

LAB demands an end to industry uncertainty

With regard to the accident, LAB has demanded an end to the uncertainty of the transportation industry. As they have already remembered from the union In 2023, 16 employees will have died in an occupational accident.

Just a few weeks earlier, they reported the death of another carrier in an occupational accident while transporting cargo for the Arcelor company. “The transportation sector is one of the sectors most affected by the scourge of occupational accidents,” explains LAB; actually last year 11 carriers died in an occupational accident.

For this reason, they have assured the union that they will not tire of “reporting work accidents due to poor working conditions and the lack of prevention and safety measures“.

“We must end uncertainty. We must end the bosses’ impunity. The institutions cannot continue to look the other way, otherwise they become complicit in what is happening,” the union concluded.