23 Jul, 2020 @ 13:38
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Elderly driver in Spain drove TEN kilometres wrong way up motorway

A MAN – described as elderly – drove for 10 kilometres the wrong way down a motorway.

He only stopped when the driver of  a car in the correct lane on the other side of the road shadowed him, hooted his horn, and wound down his window to shout a warning to the kamikaze driver.

STOP: Elderly man took wrong turning

The incident happened on the Costa da Morte motorway, the AG-55, between  the towns of Carballo and Coristanco

Now the Guardia Civil is investigating the man from Santiago de Compostela for road offences including reckless driving and endangering the lives of other road users.

Police say he was heading for his holiday home in Malpica de Bergantiños (A Coruña) at 10pm o9n Monday when he got confused and wandered the wrong way up a slip road and onto the motorway.

Although not common, there are several incidents each year where people drive in the wrong direction.

The Olive Press reported last October how a confused 70-year-old man took a wrong turning and drove 800 metres along a railway line, before leaving his car precariously parked half on the rails and half on platform number  12 at Sevilla’s Santa Justa railway station.

Click here to read more Spain News from The Olive Press.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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