Brit ‘murders wife then kills himself by crashing camper van with her body inside into a lorry on Spanish motorway’
A BRITISH man murdered his wife then killed himself by crashing his camper van into a lorry on a Spanish motorway, police believe.
The unidentified 38-year-old driver died instantly in the horror on the A-381 highway at Los Barrios near Gibraltar.
His 41-year-old French wife’s body was found in the wreckage - but post mortem tests have since revealed she had been dead for days.
And detectives now believe the Brit committed suicide by deliberately crashing the van after killing her during a row.
Witnesses said the van was being driven on the wrong side of the motorway when it slammed into the oncoming heavy goods vehicle.
A police source said: “It does appear at this stage that the driver deliberately crashed his vehicle when his wife was already dead inside.”
A domestic violence investigation was launched yesterday into the suspected murder-suicide crash at around 2.15pm on September 25.
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The 43-year-old Spanish lorry driver from Dos Hermanas near Seville, was said to have been seriously injured and was in hospital last night.
Civil Guard officers leading the inquiry declined to make any official comment yesterday.
