Brit tourist fighting for his life in Ibiza with traumatic brain injury
The 31-year-old is in an intensive care hospital unit with a traumatic brain injury and chest and shoulder injuries.
The incident that led to his hospitalisation occurred in the early hours of this morning in Doctor Fleming Avenue.
Ambulance chiefs said it happened around 2.10am.
The victim was stabilised at the scene before being taken to the private Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic, where a 25-year-old
British tourist died last month from injuries he sustained in a fall from a supermarket car park in San Antonio.
The hospital said today: 'In the early hours of this morning a 31-year-old man was run over in Doctor Fleming Avenue in San Antonio.
'The Civil Guard, local police employed by the town hall, and an ambulance went to the scene.
'The injured man, a British national, was brough to our clinic and admitted at 2.35am.
'He remains in intensive care with a traumatic brain injury, chest trauma, and a shoulder injury.'
San Antonio has come under the spotlight this summer following a number of tourist deaths in hotel plunges.
Dundee-born ice hockey star Gary Kelly, 19, became the fourth holidaymaker to die at four-star Ibiza Rocks Hotel since April 27 when he fell from a third-floor balcony on July 21 in an incident which the Civil Guard has described as an accident.
On July 7 Ewan Thomson, 26, from Aberdeen, fell to his death at the same hotel, with his sister Teila claiming afterwards: 'Once it did happen, the hotel's response was just completely heartbreaking; almost as if it never happened.'
A 19-year-old Italian tourist of Turkish origin plunged to her death on April 27 from a fourth-floor at the hotel, owned by the Ibiza Rocks Group which is led by the British founders of island super club Manumission.
The circumstances surrounding the latest incident are not yet clear. It is not known if any arrests have been made and whether the British tourist hurt was alone at the time or with family or friends.
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