Overview
- The 66-year-old mayor of Chamartín and provincial deputy collapsed at 12:52 p.m. on August 14 at kilometer 53 of the N-502 near San Martín del Pimpollar during a group cycling route.
- Emergency responders alerted by the 112 center dispatched Guardia Civil and Sacyl teams—including personnel from the Navarredonda de Gredos health center, a life-support ambulance and a medicalized unit—but resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
- Ángel Jiménez Martín had led Chamartín since 1987, served as a provincial deputy with Por Ávila since 1995 and ran a local feed factory as a self-employed businessman.
- Diputación de Ávila president Carlos García decreed three days of official mourning, ordered flags at half-mast and offered a formal tribute to the family at the provincial seat.
- Por Ávila party president José Ramón Budiño lauded Jiménez’s decades of public service and integrity, and a fellow cyclist cited possible heat stroke as a tentative cause pending formal medical confirmation.