A British motorcyclist has died in a car accident in northern Spain.
The 62-year-old collided head-on with a van this afternoon on a road running beside the A-12 motorway, in a municipality called Iguzkitza around a 35-minute drive from Pamplona where the famous San Fermin festival takes place every year.
Emergency services got a call around 1.40pm today.
They sent ambulances and a medicalised helicopter to the scene as well as police and firefighters, but there was nothing they could do to save his life.
The tragedy happened on the NA-1110 road between Azketa and Iratxe.
It was not immediately clear if the dead man was a tourist or someone who lived locally.
Pictures from the crash scene showed a white van with its front smashed in by the side of the road next to the motorbike across the tarmac.
A spokesman for local firefighters said: ‘We were called this afternoon about a front-on collision between a motorbike and a van on the NA-1110.
‘The man on the motorbike died and the occupants of the van were unharmed.’
Last Saturday a British couple aged 78 and 58 died in a horror crash in Boca de Huergano in the province of Leon, around four hours west of today’s fatal accident, after their Ferrari skidded off the road and plunged into a river.
The pair, driving a UK-plated vehicle, were found by rescuers after they reached the black Ferrari 488’s remains lying in the Yuso river.
They were reportedly part of a large convoy of around 20 other Ferrari owners.
The group had arrived in the city of Leon, the capital of the province, the day before the crash.
Police said earlier this week an investigation into the cause was still underway.