Brit woman dead in Ibiza as 'drugged-up' driver ploughs car into tourists

A British woman has been confirmed dead in Ibiza after a "drugged-up" Irish driver allegedly mounted the pavement in a horror accident in which another two Brits were injured.

One of the survivors is fighting for her life in hospital, it emerged today as officials confirmed all three women hit by the 4x4 were aged 23 and from the UK. Policehave confirmed the driver of the Jeep Wrangler that ploughed into them is an Irish national suspected of consuming deadly laughing gas moments before the accident yesterday around 11.15am. The hospital where the two most seriously injured women were taken - and where one subsequently lost her fight for life - said today: "With regards to the accident yesterday near San Antonio, two of the women injured were taken to the Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic. Both British.

"One of them, aged 23, died yesterday due to the severity of her injuries The other, also aged 23, is in intensive care at the moment. She has multiple trauma injuries, closed chest trauma, closed abdominal trauma with injuries to her spleen and kidney and a serious pelvic injury. She is in a critical condition."

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A spokesman for San Jose Town Hall, the municipality the accident occurred in by Es Pouet Beach a short drive the popular resort of San Antonio, confirmed the arrest of the suspect, believed to be 30-years-old, yesterday. The spokesman said yesterday afternoon: "San Jose Local Police today arrested an Irish driver after he hit three people in the Es Pueto area, resulting in one fatality and two serious injuries.

"The detainee was accused of reckless driving, driving under the influence of drugs, manslaughter due to gross negligence and serious injury due to gross negligence, after initial investigations revealed evidence of nitrous oxide consumption moments before the accident. San Jose Local Police are currently continuing to work in coordination with the Civil Guard and the emergency services."

It is not yet clear whether the suspect lives in Ibiza or was holidaying on the island. The British woman who died was rushed to a private clinic called Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic in "critical" condition, but died there yesterday, officials on the island said.

Sources at the hospital said today the other British woman who was badly hurt in the crash remains "critical." The third, whose nationality was already known, was the least seriously injured of the three but was admitted to an A&E ward at island state hospital Can Misses where yesterday she was said to be "stable and conscious."

A waiter who witnessed the crash and had served the three women a day earlier described what happened overnight as "horrible."

The restaurant worker, one of the first to aid the women and named locally only as Youssef, told respected island newspaper Periodico de Ibiza: "First we heard a loud bang, then we saw the lamppost the car had knocked down and one of the girls flying through the air before landing on the road. Two of them were in a very bad way, one was bleeding heavily and the third was in shock."