A British holidaymaker is fighting for his life after being run over in the Ibiza party resort of San Antonio – the 31-year-old is in an intensive care hospital unit with a traumatic brain injury
A British holidaymaker is fighting for his life after being run over in the Ibiza party resort of San Antonio.
The 31-year-old is in an intensive care hospital unit with a traumatic brain injury and chest and shoulder injuries. The incident that led to his hospitalisation occurred at around 2:10am in Doctor Fleming Avenue, according to ambulance chiefs.
The victim was stabilised at the scene before being taken to the private Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic, where a 25-year-old British tourist died last month from injuries he sustained in a fall from a supermarket car park in San Antonio. It comes after a warning to Brit tourists planning all-inclusive holidays to Spain.
The hospital said today: “In the early hours of this morning a 31-year-old man was run over in Doctor Fleming Avenue in San Antonio. The Civil Guard, local police employed by the town hall, and an ambulance went to the scene.
“The injured man, a British national, was brought to our clinic and admitted at 2:35am. He remains in intensive care with a traumatic brain injury, chest trauma, and a shoulder injury.”
San Antonio has come under the spotlight this summer following a number of tourist deaths in hotel plunges. Dundee-born ice hockey star Gary Kelly, 19, became the fourth holidaymaker to die at four-star Ibiza Rocks Hotel since April 27 when he fell from a third-floor balcony on July 21 in an incident which the Civil Guard has described as an accident.
On July 7 Ewan Thomson, 26, from Aberdeen, fell to his death at the same hotel, with his sister Teila claiming afterwards: “Once it did happen, the hotel’s response was just completely heartbreaking; almost as if it never happened.”
A 19-year-old Italian tourist of Turkish origin plunged to her death on April 27 from a fourth-floor at the hotel, owned by the Ibiza Rocks Group which is led by the British founders of island super club Manumission.
The circumstances surrounding the latest incident are not yet clear. It is not known if any arrests have been made and whether the British tourist hurt was alone at the time or with family or friends.
It comes as a police investigation in Majorca was sparked when a 44-year-old British man was beaten and had his watch stolen in front of his wife and daughter by a lurking gang.
The Brit, 44, was attacked in the resort of Port d’Andratx in the south-west of the island during an evening stroll after a meal at a luxury hotel. It is thought the man had been watched for hours by an organised gang following repeated warnings about Rolex thefts in Majorca, other Spanish holiday islands and the mainland.
The violent robbery, which saw three people get out of a car and snatch the watch, is being investigated by the Spanish Civil Guard.