A British motorbike rider was left fighting for his life after a head-on collision with a car in northern Spain yesterday.

The 64-year-old was rushed to hospital in an air ambulance and is said to be in a 'very serious' condition following the crash.

He collided with a pick-up truck driven by a 50-year-old Spanish woman as he rode his motorbike on the N-260 road in the municipality of Montanuy, close to the Catalan border.

Emergency medical responders treated him at the scene before taking him to Arnau de Vilanova Hospital in the city of Lerida 85 miles south of the crash.

The driver of the car was unharmed in the crash which occurred at about 7.40am on June 19. 

An investigation by the Civil Guard, the police force leading the probe, was still ongoing this morning and a cause of the collision is not yet known.

It is also not clear whether the motorbike rider was travelling with others or alone. 

Hospital officials have yet to offer an update on the man's condition but he was said to be in a 'very serious' condition when he was transported to hospital - first in an ambulance before being taken the rest of the way in a helicopter. 

The British motorcyclist was riding along the N-260, a historic 300-mile long national highway running east to west along the southern foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees.

It connects the Mediterranean coast at Portbou at the French border to the town of Sabinanigo in the province of Huesca.

The motorbike crash is not the first time a Briton has been involved in a head-on collision in Spain in recent years.

In May 2025, a millionaire British businessman died in front of his daughter after hitting a van during a motorbike holiday in northern Spain.

Entrepreneur Paul Gerard Tustain, 62, was killed on a road near the town of Pamplona where the famous San Fermin festival takes place every year.

The London-based businessman was the founder and chairman of BullionVault, the world’s largest online bullion investment service, and WhiskyInvestDirect.com, which organised bulk crowdfunding of in-barrel Scotch whisky maturation.

Before venturing into the finance and investment sector Mr Tustain founded SAM Systems which specialised in mid and back office functions of the banking and stockbroking sectors. 

Just days earlier, a British couple aged 78 and 58 died after their Ferrari skidded off the road and plunged into a river in Boca de Huergano in the province of Leon, around four hours west of that fatal accident.

The pair, driving a UK-plated vehicle, were found by rescuers after they reached the black Ferrari 488’s remains lying in the Yuso river.