Trucker and son die in 75ft plunge

Police in the Spanish city of Bilbao were today trying to find out what caused a British juggernaut to leave a motorway bridge and plunge 75 feet into a river, killing the driver and his nine-year-old son.

Darren Leslie Evans, 34, and his son, from Bangor, North Wales, were killed instantly in the accident.

No other vehicle was involved. The articulated, refrigerated lorry, which was empty at the time, smashed through the railings on the motorway skirting the busy port on Spain's north coast.

The accident happened just after 3pm yesterday.