29 Apr, 2025 @ 09:28
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Bus in death crash on Spain’s Mallorca with eight injured

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A MAN has died after his car smashed head-on into a bus on a road between Portocolom and Felanitx in Mallorca.

The crash happened at around 6.50am yesterday (April 28) on the Ma-4010 road, leaving the road completely blocked at kilometre 2.

Eight bus passengers were also injured, although thankfully their injuries are said to be minor.

Emergency crews rushed to the scene after the crash, with firefighters from Bombers de Mallorca having to cut the car driver free from the wreckage. Despite their efforts, the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Four ambulances attended the smash, and five of the injured bus passengers were taken to hospital, while three others made their own way for medical treatment.

The collision, involving a TIB bus headed for Palma, remains under investigation by the Guardia Civil, who are trying to establish exactly what caused the two vehicles to collide so violently.

The front of the bus was crumpled by the force of the impact.

The tragedy came just hours after another deadly crash on the island’s Valldemossa road, where a motorcyclist was killed in a separate accident.

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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