THE WEATHER
Edition 327
www.thecourier.es
Friday 23rd June 2017
IT’S HAPPENED AGAIN!
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n intoxicated 41-yearold Finnish woman was arrested by the Guardia Civil after knocking over a cyclist on the CV-920 in the Guardamar municipality on Sunday morning. It’s the latest collision with a cyclist involving a motorist that was either drunk or on drugs in Alicante Province, with five people having lost their lives since early May. A 30-year-old Moroccan cyclist was struck, with the woman driving away from the scene, before she was discovered by the Guardia Civil in the area in the early evening, and was over the drink-drive limit several hours after the collision. The cyclist was taken to the
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Vega Baja Hospital with early indications that he may have had suffered a severe brain injury. The motorist appeared before a Torrevieja judge on Monday, who charged her with a series of offences including driving under the
influence of alcohol; driving without a license; and causing injury. In contrast to similar recent incidents, she was granted bail and must report to a court every 15 days in addition to having her passport taken away. The
Informacion newspaper said that the woman told the judge that she couldn’t remember anything, with the paper reporting that before the collision with the cyclist, she had been involved in a “minor” accident.
CARRIAGEWAY CHAOS
he long-running story of trying to upgrade the N-332 highway around Torrevieja into a dual carriageway has taken a fresh twist, with the Valencian Government now saying that the project has nothing to do with them, amidst some unsigned documents dating back a dozen years. The Courier reported last week that Spain’s works ministry claimed that a series of concerns that were stalling the project needed to be addressed by the Valencian administration, and that they had not heard anything back from them on those issues for a number of months. Now Torrevieja mayor
José Manuel Dolón(pictured) has revealed that Valencia’s public works minister Carlos Domingo Soler has said that it is nothing to do with them, despite all their previous statements and actions over the stalled plans, adding that responsibility for the N-332 lay with the national works ministry. He said that there was no deal between Torrevieja council and the national ministry that involved the Valencian government, despite a three-way agreement that was apparently made back in 2005, but had not been signed. Dolón is to seek an urgent meeting with Spain’s works minister Manuel Niño
González to press for the project to continue, and has said that neither the national or regional governments had located the documents
that should have been signed 12 years ago. A copy for signing in Torrevieja never appeared either, according to the mayor.
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