New testimony comes to light in Angel Nieto’s death

Two witnesses to the July 26, 2017 crash that killed 13-time motorcycle world champion Angel Nieto saw the rider’s helmet unbuttoned just before the crash. reported in the Second Court of Ibiza.

To these two statements made last Tuesday is added another third from one of the people who arrived at the scene shortly after the accident occurred on July 26, 2017.

Agencia EFE learned that the only woman who witnessed the accident claimed to have observed how Nieto’s helmet flew off and saw the strap loosen “before the crash happened.”

Additionally, he pointed out in court that the vehicle that collided with the “quad” Nieto was in was “very close” and that he had a “feeling” that the car was “moving faster.”

In his speech, he assured that he thought the car’s speed was “excessive” and denied that the motorcycle champion’s quad had collided with another vehicle.

A second eyewitness to the accident saw the car crash from behind the “quad” and reported that the pilot was thrown out while the case was falling.

This same witness indicated that the vehicle behind Nieto’s ‘quad’ was not going ‘very fast’.

Finally, the Second Court of Investigation accepted the statement of one of the first to arrive at the scene after the accident occurred.

In this case, the man recalled that Nieto, who was on the road after the accident, was not wearing a helmet, and assured him that he had not seen anyone take it off or wait for it to happen.

These statements were made after the Parma Court in June 2018 ordered the case to be reopened and to take the necessary steps to “make the facts fully clear”.

In the first instance, Ibiza’s Second Investigative Court filed the case on the understanding that the driver who rear-ended Nieto’s car had committed no crime.

Nieto’s relatives appealed the dismissal, believing it to be premature, and demanded the implementation of the proceedings, as well as the statements of the driver and witnesses.

The driver made a statement in March 2021 under investigation for possible reckless murder.

The accident occurred on the Santa Gertrudis Highway on July 26, 2017, when the defendant’s car struck the rear of the “quad” that Nieto was driving and Nieto was thrown and hit his head on the ground.

The pilot died on August 3 after spending several days in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic.