On Sunday morning I decided to take a walk. I won’t bore you with the details but I was trying out a rucksack I had purchased for my winter travels. I was bumbling along at a gentle pace when I happened upon a scene of pure carnage at Es Pouet beach near the NYX hotel in San Antonio. Several ambulances with flashing lights, 3 people being attended to, one of them in a very bad way.
It was a scene of nightmares. I saw a guy I knew with his wife who was obviously still in shock. They had witnessed the accident, had been right next to the three young ladies as they had been mown down by the big Jeep Wrangler driving erratically, hitting a lamppost and a bin.
It was 11.30am on a Sunday morning for god’s sake. I hung around like a spare part taking a few photos as is my instinct at these times. I put the pics on our British Association whatsapp group to share the news and someone came back straight away with the following
“I saw this guy driving near my work this morning. He was on the wrong side of the road as had a balloon going on”
Let that sink in for a minute.
Words truly fail me at these times. The witness at the scene described to me in detail what he had seen and said straight away that he feared the worst for the young girl and unfortunately he was proved correct when a little later word came through that she had tragically passed away. Innocently walking down the street on a Sunday morning in the Ibiza sunshine.
It’s times like this when I hate it. The whole free spirit thing, do what you love, love what you do but I need to remind myself that the man arrested for this heinous crime is the exception not the rule. We can’t blame anything or anyone apart from him for his actions. He was the one speeding, he was the one sucking on a balloon in a 1 ton vehicle which became a deadly weapon.
It could have been my friends, it could have been my children, it could have been you or me but tragically it was 3 innocent young ladies in their early 20s who were in the wrong place at the wrong time minding their own business until a selfish show off in a powerful SUV decided that his petty enjoyment was more important than the life of a girl he will never know but always remember.
The arrested man will now face justice and be given what he deserves, I will leave that to the Spanish courts but whatever he subsequently has to face it will be nothing compared to the news that some poor parents are now trying to process. A daughter on holiday who won’t be coming home.
Truly Heartbreaking.
MAN IN SAN AN by Martin Makepeace 
We drove past there on Friday. People doing everyday things, walking in the sunshine, shopping, enjoying the beach…then some fool thinks it’s acceptable to drive along, huffing a balloon?
I cannot imagine the hell that the families of those poor women are going through.
If you want to get off your face, on drink, drugs, whatever, that’s your choice I suppose, but how many people have been affected by one goons bad choice?
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The selfishness of this man knows no bounds
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