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Sad update on the victim of last July's hit and run.

https://www.todoalicante.es/sucesos/fal ... 16-nt.html

Google translate:

The 69-year-old man who was hit by a scooter in Torrevieja has died.

The victim was left with a 95% disability | Local police arrested the driver, who could now face charges of manslaughter.

The 69-year-old man who was hit by a 25-year-old riding a scooter last July in Torrevieja has died after suffering serious injuries for months, as confirmed to TodoAlicante by sources close to the family.

The victim, a resident of Toledo, died on December 31st after his body succumbed to the severe injuries he sustained in the accident. Following the collision, he spent several weeks in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Elche General Hospital , where he arrived in critical condition due to brain injuries. Although he recovered from the most acute phase and was discharged, he was left with a 95% disability and extreme clinical frailty.

In fact, a mild infection—which, according to the doctor who treated him, in a healthy person would have been treated with "one antibiotic pill every 8 hours"—ended up being fatal, demonstrating the irreversible severity of the aftereffects left by the hit-and-run, his family maintains.

The Torrevieja Local Police arrested the scooter driver, who fled the scene without assisting the victim, after a ten-day intensive search. He was a 25-year-old man of "foreign origin, with a Spanish ID card, and who has been living in Spain for more than 15 years," according to sources close to the case who spoke to this newspaper.

Initially, he was charged with aggravated assault due to negligence. Following the victim's death, the legal classification of the events could be changed to manslaughter, punishable by imprisonment for between one and four years, as established by the Penal Code.

The fatal accident caused a strong shock among the residents of the area, who denounced the increasing circulation of these personal mobility vehicles at high speed through the streets, often without control or identification.

Furthermore, the incident reopens the debate on the need to strengthen regulations and surveillance of electric scooters in urban areas, especially in tourist towns like Torrevieja, where their use has skyrocketed in recent years.