ISSUE NO. 1667
15 - 21 June 2017
COSTA BLANCA NORTH
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N-332 claims more victims
Road to hell By Linda Hall and Tahnee Wright Traffic police are to launch a probe after two more cyclist deaths on the N-332 road brought the total to five since the turn of the year. It comes after a drug-fuelled Dutch driver, 25, ploughed his BMW into a 32-year-old cyclist between Oliva and Denia on Sunday morning, killing him instantly. The driver fled the scene but was stopped by the Guardia Civil in El Verger, testing positive for cocaine and marihuana before being jailed ahead of a court appearance.
DEATH TRAP: The N-332 is notorious.
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A second cyclist then lost his life just after 8pm on Monday after being mowed down on the same road between Villajoyosa and Benidorm. He was not carrying documentation and has been described as between 60 and
Shark scares beachgoers VALENCIA’S Playa de Cabanyal beach was closed when a two-metre shark was sighted close to the shore. It was first thought to be a blue shark, but experts believe it more likely to be a shooth hound shark ‘disorientated’ by unusual currents and rising temperatures; the beach was reopened after around 30 minutes when it headed out to deeper waters.
70-years-old. The incidents come just five weeks after a 28-year-old Spanish woman from Gandia, who was also under the influence of alcohol and drugs, killed three cyclists at kilometre 206 of the N-332.
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