Well-known Marbella businessman Ricardo Arranz seriously injured in Burgos crash

Well-known Marbella businessman Ricardo Arranz is in an induced coma in the intensive care unit of a hospital following a serious car crash on Friday, 2 June.

The executive chairman of Villa Padierna Hotels & Resorts was taken to University Hospital of Burgos, in the north of Spain, after a lorry ploughed into the car he was travelling in while he was on his way to a private event in his home city.

The 112 emergency services were alerted and the fire brigade was called to rescue Arranz, and the person he was travelling with, fellow businessman, Juan Federico Van Dulken. He was also taken to hospital, but his condition has since improved.

The news has come as a shock to the business and tourism sector in the Costa del Sol town and wider Malaga province.