Los Alfaques: el peor accidente de tráfico de España

2:36 PM, July 11, 1978. Tarragona coast. A propylene tanker truck passes by a campsite full of tourists. Seconds later, the worst traffic accident in Spanish history. But it wasn't an accident. This report reconstructs, step by step, the chain of avoidable decisions that led to the Los Alfaques tragedy: a tanker truck loaded with four tons over its legal limit, without a pressure relief valve, rolling along a coastal road under the July sun. And the fact that changes everything: it wasn't the first overloaded truck to leave that refinery. It was, at least, the thirty-third. Why a BLEVE turned a campsite into ashes, why the death toll was never just one, and how this disaster rewrote the regulations for transporting hazardous materials in Spain. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 2:36 PM on a July Day 2:46 The Four Extra Tons 4:13 The Valve That Didn't Exist 5:26 What is a BLEVE? 7:09 The Seconds of Disaster 8:32 The Campsite 9:37 The Number: Between 215 and 243 11:04 The Impossible Identification 12:21 The 32 Tankers 14:02 The Trial 15:43 What Changed 19:18 Four Permits That No One Denied 📚 SOURCES • Gösta Arturson — "The Los Alfaques disaster: a boiling-liquid, expanding-vapour explosion" (Burns Magazine, 1981) • University of Zaragoza — GUIAR, technical data sheet of the accident • Ruling of the Provincial Court of Tarragona (1982-83) and appeal to the Supreme Court (1983) • ARIA Database (France) — BLEVE of a liquefied propylene truck • El País newspaper archives (trial announcement, December 9, 1981) • TIME, "Spain: It Was Like Napalm" (July 1978); The Washington Post, "Holocaust in a Holiday Camp" (July 12, 1978) • ADR Regulations: Directive 94/55/EC → Royal Decree 2115/1998 → Royal Decree 551/2006 ⚖️ LEGAL NOTICE This video is based exclusively on verified public information: the technical study by Arturson (Burns, 1981), the reconstruction by the University of Zaragoza, the ruling of the Provincial Court of Tarragona and its appeal to the Supreme Court, and verified newspaper archives. The death toll is presented as a range (~215-243) due to documented discrepancies between sources and counting times. Interpretations are separate from the account of the facts. No statement goes beyond what has been established. 🔔 If you believe these cases deserve to be told rigorously and without sensationalism, subscribe: → @puntocero_tv 💬 Do you think Los Alfaques was an accident or negligence that was tolerated for months? Share your theory below. 🎬 Punto Cero — Crime, science, and memory. No sensationalism. No filler. #LosAlfaques #RealDisasters #PuntoCero