AN ex-prisoner has died in a horror smash with a lorry on the Costa del Sol after a stolen car he was driving ran out of fuel in the middle of a motorway.
The man was travelling along the A-7 near Nerja, heading towards Malaga, when the vehicle suddenly spluttered to a halt in the right-hand lane at around 1.30am last Saturday.
A lorry then ploughed into the stranded car, according to reports, despite the driver’s desperate attempt to avoid a collision.
Sources at Diario Sur identified the victim as a 33-year-old Ecuadorian national who had been released from a Madrid prison just days earlier.
He is believed to have stolen the vehicle there before heading down to the Costa del Sol.
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