{"id":95432,"date":"2025-05-12T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95432\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:33:08","slug":"british-couple-die-after-their-ferrari-plunges-into-a-river-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/95432\/","title":{"rendered":"British couple die after their Ferrari plunges into a river in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A BRITISH couple died after their Ferrari sports car plunged off a mountainous road in northern Spain and ended up in a river.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on Saturday at around 1.47pm on the N-621 in the Castilla y Leon region close to the town of Portilla de la Reina.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, a 78-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, died when their British-registered car drove into the Yuso river.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-412301 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ferrari-488-490x327.jpg\"  data-\/><strong>FERRARI 488<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No further details have been released about the couple.<\/p>\n<p>A Foreign Office spokesperson said: \u201cWe are supporting the families of a British man and woman who died in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One report suggested that they were travelling in a convoy with around 20 other Ferrari owners- all from the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services arrived at the scene to find their \u20ac360,000 black Ferrari 488 partially submerged in the river.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue operation was hampered by fire crews needing to clear vegetation to access the riverbed.<\/p>\n<p>They then had to remove a door to retrieve the body of one of the occupants.<\/p>\n<p>Operations were concluded at around 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the accident is being conducted by the the Guardia Civil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BRITISH couple died after their Ferrari sports car plunged off a mountainous road in northern Spain and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[44694,44695,2000,299,44696,44697,18104,8626,44698,104,18106],"class_list":{"0":"post-95432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-british-couple-die-in-road-accident","9":"tag-castilla-y-leon","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-ferrarri-sports-car-ends-up-in-yuso-river","13":"tag-guardia-civil","14":"tag-news-spain","15":"tag-newspaper","16":"tag-portilla-de-la-reina","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-the-olive-press"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114495121459589989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}