A 53-year-old motorcyclist not only came off his bike on the A-92, which is painful at the best of times, but a lorry ran over him. He must have been thinking how lucky he was that the wheels passed either side of him, but then his leather jacket snagged on the chassis and off they all went.

The lorry driver heard the cries and oaths coming from somewhere underneath but thought that it wouldn’t be a good idea to stop on the autovia, so he continued to the nearest turn off point, which was a service station.

As soon as he pulled up he shouted for help and started looking under the lorry and found a gentleman with a crash helmet jammed up next to the fuel tank. Both of his legs were fractured and he wasn’t pleased.

Somebody called 112 and before long and ambulance and a fire engine arrived. The firemen managed to extract him and he was whisked off in the ambulance, which was decidedly less eventful than travelling by lorry.

Somebody realised that the biker was missing something important; namely his motorbike, so they told the Guardia Civil who went out to look for it just in case it was lying somewhere where it was liable to cause another accident. They found it and it was taken away by a breakdown lorry.

A question that readers might be asking themselves is, if you’re driving a lorry and suddenly you hear somebody screaming for you to stop coming from underneath, wouldn’t you pull over onto the hard should immediately, even if you were on an autovía?

(News: Albolote, Granada, Andalucia)