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Real Madrid coach involved in auto crash after Liverpool bashing
Police released a statement on Thursday after Real Madrid‘s team bus was involved in a collision on the M40 near Warwick a day after their Champions League defeat against Liverpool at Anfield. People passing the scene alerted the local authorities by posting footage on social media after seeing the coach stationary on the side of the motorway behind the lorry it seemingly crashed into.
Warwickshire Police then responded to the reports claiming a collision occurred between a car, a lorry and the coach. However, no serious injuries resulted from the incident.
None of Madrid’s players were on their bus and presumably flew back to the Spanish capital hours after the match. The vehicle was only transporting equipment the club brought over for the game.
Warwickshire Police have since released a statement. “Our officers responded to reports of a collision involving a car, a lorry, and the coach of a well-known football team on the M40 southbound between junction 16 for Hockley Heath and junction 15 for Warwick,” it explains.
“Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured. The players from the well-known football team were not on the coach at the time.”
The club only unveiled the bus last month, rebranding it to align with the design of the £1.5billion rebuild of their Bernabeu Stadium. However, the incident on the M40 is not even its first this year after being involved in a crash while in Germany during February for Madrid’s Champions League round of 16 first leg against RB Leipzig.
For that tie, the team had to fly into Erfurt rather than Leipzig because of a strike at the city’s airport. That necessitated a 100-mile journey in their coach, during which time, as the German tabloid Bild reported at the time, they collided with a white Toyota.
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