13 September 2024 , 14:06
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A British father and his two sons have been injured in a head-on death crash in Menorca.
The trio were travelling in a taxi which smashed into a rental car carrying a female passenger who died.
One of the British youngsters, aged 20, suffered serious head injuries and was stabilised at the scene before being transferred to the Spanish holiday island’s Mateu Orfila Hospital.
He is in the hospital’s intensive care unit but is understood to be stable.
A 24-year-old described as his brother was also seriously hurt, suffering multiple injuries including a broken leg.
Their 46-year-old father and the taxi driver were also hurt but not seriously.
The dead woman is a 72-year-old Argentinian national who was a front-seat passenger in the Kia Stonic hire car that collided with the taxi.
Her 64-year-old year husband, who was driving, is also in a serious condition in Mateu Orfila Hospital with chest injuries.
The tragedy happened this morning just after 9.30am near the inland town of Ferreries, one of the most picturesque on the island, on the road between Mahon and Ciutadella.
Photos from the scene showed the fronts of both vehicles involved in the crash badly damaged with their windscreens smashed and bits of both cars scattered over the road.
An investigation into the accident has been launched but local reports are pointing to the hire car careering onto the wrong side of the road as it came down a hill where the smash occurred.
The injured Brits are all understood to have been on holiday in Menorca. It was not immediately clear this afternoon where they had been heading to in the taxi.
The crash caused long traffic jams.
The Argentinian woman was the sixth person to die in a road traffic accident in Menorca so far this year.