Two British nationals have died and a third has been critically injured after their car smashed into a suspected drugs traffickers’ speedboat that came off a trailer on a vehicle travelling in front of them on a Spanish dual-carriageway.
The trio were the first to hit the ‘narcolancha’ when it ended up on the tarmac near the resort of La Manga on Saturday night at around 9:30pm.
Video footage taken at the site of the crash, the RM-12, a dual carriageway known colloquially as La Manga motorway, near to El Algar between La Manga and Cartagena, showed a pileup of several cars, with many vehicle parts strewn across the road.
Police has confirmed the nationalities of the victims, saying another eight people in six cars travelling behind them were injured in the mass pile-up.
The driver of the vehicle which had been carrying the suspect vessel on a trailer fled the scene and was still being hunted by police.
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Local press initially described the two people who died as two women, saying this morning they were ‘foreign tourists’ aged around 40.
A Civil Guard spokesman confirmed the pair’s nationalities at midday today, saying both they and the critically injured victim ‘were British men aged 47 to 54.’
Local media reported that one individual who suffered serious injuries was taken to Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital, while others were taken to Santa Lucía hospital in Cartagena to treat minor injuries.
