British dad and two sons injured in fatal head-on crash in Menorca

A British begetter and his 2 sons person been injured successful a head-on decease clang successful Menorca.

The trio were travelling successful a taxi which smashed into a rental car carrying a pistillate rider who died.

One of the British youngsters, aged 20, suffered superior caput injuries and was stabilised astatine the country earlier being transferred to the Spanish vacation island’s Mateu Orfila Hospital.

He is successful the hospital’s intensive attraction portion but is understood to beryllium stable.
A 24-year-old described arsenic his member was besides earnestly hurt, suffering aggregate injuries including a breached leg.

Their 46-year-old begetter and the taxi operator were besides wounded but not seriously.
The dormant pistillate is simply a 72-year-old Argentinian nationalist who was a front-seat rider successful the Kia Stonic prosecute car that collided with the taxi.

Her 64-year-old twelvemonth husband, who was driving, is besides successful a superior information successful Mateu Orfila Hospital with thorax injuries.

The calamity happened this greeting conscionable aft 9.30am adjacent the inland municipality of Ferreries, 1 of the astir picturesque connected the island, connected the roadworthy betwixt Mahon and Ciutadella.

Photos from the country showed the fronts of some vehicles progressive successful the clang severely damaged with their windscreens smashed and bits of some cars scattered implicit the road.

An probe into the mishap has been launched but section reports are pointing to the prosecute car careering onto the incorrect broadside of the roadworthy arsenic it came down a elevation wherever the smash occurred.

The injured Brits are each understood to person been connected vacation successful Menorca. It was not instantly wide this day wherever they had been heading to successful the taxi.
The clang caused agelong postulation jams.

The Argentinian pistillate was the sixth idiosyncratic to dice successful a roadworthy postulation mishap successful Menorca truthful acold this year.

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