A British millionaire who was killed in a horror motorbike crash in Spain has been named as Paul Gerard Tustain.
The 62-year-old was travelling on the NA-1110 highway in Logroño, La Rioja, when he veered into the opposite lane and collided with a truck.
The gold trader, from London, was on a three-day trip with his daughter, who was traveling directly behind him on her own motorcycle when the tragic accident occurred.
Emergency services were notified of the collision at around 1.38pm on Thursday.
Firefighters, police and paramedics raced to the scene but they could do nothing to save Paul’s life.
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The crash took place in the municipality of Igúzquiza, between Azketa and Iratxe, in Tierra Estella.
Paul’s motorcycle was pictured completely wrecked following the collision.
The van’s windshield and front bumper were also severely damaged, although the driver escaped unharmed.
Paul’s body was removed from the scene and taken away for a routine autopsy.
A spokesman for the Navarra Foral Police said: ‘The dead man’s daughter saw he had strayed onto the wrong side of the road and tried to alert him with hand signals but it was too late.
‘He smashed head-on into a van that couldn’t do anything to avoid the collision.
‘A post mortem will show whether he might have suffered a health problem that could have caused him to go onto the wrong side of the road.
‘Otherwise it’s likely to have been a fatal distraction. The force of the impact was brutal.’
