8 Nov, 2019 @ 08:00
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Person survives crashing through barrier and plummeting eight metres only to die after opening door and falling to death on Spain’s Costa del Sol

xMijas town white village benalmadena
Mijas
xMijas town white village benalmadena
Mijas

A PERSON has been killed after falling down a slope following a car crash on the Costa del Sol. 

The vehicle came into trouble on the A-387 road in Mijas yesterday when it crashed through a barrier and plummeted around eight metres.

According to emergency services 112, a call came in at around 11am to warn of the car’s accident and to report that the driver was still trapped in the inside.

Firefighters and Guardia Civil rushed to the scene, however the person died when they tried to get out of the vehicle and fell to their death.

Police have only confirmed that someone died, refusing to give out any more information.

The nationality of the driver is not known.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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