Charlie Smith
DRIVERS in Granada have narrowly cheated death as an enormous five-tonne boulder crashed down onto the carretera.
The N-340 road between Nerja and Torrox was completely closed off yesterday, as engineers began clearing the highway of the 25-metre-cubed rock, which fell at around 4:00pm.
Despite the sizeable chunk off cliff landing near beach bar La Restinga, there were no injuries or fatalities.
The mayor of Torrox, Óscar Medina said: “We have decided to close it as a precaution and estimate it will remain closed for about a week.
“It is not just about removing it,” he continued, “for safety we have to clean all the rocks and eliminate those that are cracked so that the wall becomes compact again.”
It is expected that the huge lump of stone, which broke free from a protective cliff face mesh, will cost over €40,000 to break up and dispose of.
With a history of rock falls in the area the mayor took no chances in sealing off the highway ahead of heavy rain forecasts.
Well yes the rock fell on that road, but Nerja isn’t in Granada, its in Malaga…