Teen Biker Dies in Crash

The bike rider who died in a road accident in the early hours of yesterday morning in the Vega de Granada was only 16 years old.

GRA Camino de Purchil Irrigation Channel Biker Accident OC22It was a friend who had been accompaying him on another motorbike that raised the alarm after he realised that he had lost sight of his friend up ahead. This was around four in the morning on the GR-3418, near the Puleva factory

The city fire service, the Policía Nacional and Local, as well as the Guardia Civil, began searching for him in the dark which lasted over two hours before they found the body.

The police first found the motorcycle and the lad’s crash helmet (which had  obviously not been secured) which led them to believe that he had fallen into a concrete irrigation channel running next to the road.

The problem was that the channel is covered over along parts of its length. The police and fire personnel searched upstream and downstream before finally finding the body within the irrigation channel.

(News: Purchil, Vega, Granada, Andalucia)

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