Overview

• A Jeep Wrangler mounted the pavement around 11:15am opposite Playa des Pouet, striking three young women and knocking down a lamppost near a pedestrian crossing.
• Local officials confirmed one death and two injuries, with a 23-year-old British woman reported stable and conscious at Can Misses hospital.
• San Jose Local Police arrested an Irish man, about 30, on suspicion of drug-impaired driving, manslaughter and causing serious injury after he failed a drugs test.
• Authorities say initial inquiries indicate nitrous oxide consumption shortly before the crash, and they plan to retrieve driving data from the vehicle’s control unit.
• Lifeguards, multiple police patrols and 061 ambulances responded, the street was closed, and witness statements and citizen images are informing the ongoing investigation.