A three-week-old baby girl has been killed and her mum left with serious injuries following a horror car accident at a popular holiday hotspot.
The mum and daughter were reportedly hit by an out-of-control car as it rolled down a hill in front of the woman’s husband and their four-year-old son while they were walking in the resort of Calpe in Costa Blanca, Spain. Emergency services rushed to the scene, and transported the baby to the La Fe Hospital in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia.
The baby tragically died, and the mum, who was taken to the nearby Denia Hospital, has reportedly had one of her legs amputated and suffered a blood clot.
She is in intensive care unit at nearby Denia Hospital. The nationalities of those hurt has not yet been made public. Local police have launched an investigation into the accident, which is being linked locally to the handbrake giving way on the car that hit the mother and child.
The baby was in a pram her mum was pushing when they were hit. The vehicle that careered into him is not believed to be their car.
Town hall officials could not be reached for comment late this morning. Calpe Rock, officially known as Penon de Ifach, is one of the most famous sights along the Costa Blanca coastline and is also a protected natural park.
It rises more than 300 metres above the Mediterranean and offers incredible views of the surrounding area. The accident is understood to have happened by a private residential urbanisation in the resort, although the exact location has not yet been revealed.
Calpe is a hugely popular resort on the Spanish coast visited by hundreds of thousands of people per year, around 336,000, according to figures from local authorities. A large portion of the approximately 50,000 people who live in the town are foreigners, around 55 percent.
Both full-time residents and tourists hail from a number of countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Poland and Belgium. The population can increase by up to seven times, with sometimes up to 200,000 staying in the town during the height of summer.