Two Britons killed and several injured in two crashes in Spain
A British tourist has been killed and her daughter and partner seriously injured in a road smash in Costa Blanca, and a 14-year-old British boy has died in Ibiza after being hit by a car on New Year’s Day.
The boy, who had just celebrated his birthday on New Year’s Eve, was hit on the road leading to Portinax by a car carrying a family. Sources told local reporters that he was carrying suitcases and walking in the middle of the road when he was hit late at night. It is not known whether he was a tourist or living in Ibiza.
In a separate crash in Costa Blanca, a woman from Bedfordshire died when her family’s hire car was involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle on a notorious stretch of road.
The woman, believed to be in her 60s, had just landed at Alicante airport with her family and they were driving to a villa when the accident happened on the N332 at Santa Pola, about 12 minutes’ from the airport, which was the scene of a four-vehicle pile-up just a month ago.
The woman died at the scene and five people were rushed to hospital in Alicante. The accident, which caused tailbacks for several kilometres along the busy coastal road, is being investigated by the traffic Civil Guard.
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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