Los Alfaques Disaster
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The Los Alfaques Disaster is a truck road accident which happened on July 11, 1978 in San Carlos de la Rápita, near Tarragone, in Spain. A chemical truck with 25 tons of liquefied propylene, a highly flammable product, left the road and ended close to the Los Alfaques campsite, located between the road and the sea. After hitting a small building, the truck exploded in a 1000 C° fire ball, killing 217 and injuring more than 200 more, most of them vacationing foreigners.
The official inquiry determined that the truck, which left the Tarragone refinery one half hour earlier, was overloaded.
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