A British millionaire investor was killed in front of his daughter after his motorbike veered onto the other side of the road in northern Spain. Paul Gerard Tustain, 62, died yesterday after his rented BMW motorbike, slammed into a van after he strayed onto the wrong side of the road.
The incident happened in Pamplona as the London-based entrepreneur and his daughter rode separate motorbikes through the country. His horrified daughter is understood to have been travelling behind him at the time of the collision. A spokesman for the Navarra Foral Police said: “The dead man’s daughter saw he had strayed onto the wrong side of the road and tried to alert him with hand signals but it was too late.
“He smashed head-on into a van that couldn’t do anything to avoid the collision.
“A post mortem will show whether he might have suffered a health problem that could have caused him to go onto the wrong side of the road.
“Otherwise it’s likely to have been a fatal distraction. The force of the impact was brutal.”
Local police added that the pair were heading for the town of Logrono at the time of the incident.
The tragic incident happen at around 1.30pm local time on the NA-1110 road between Azketa and Iratxe.
Emergency services arrived on the seen at 1.40pm, with an ambulance and medical helicopter deployed but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
A spokesman for local firefighters said: “We were called yesterday afternoon about a head-on collision between a motorbike and a van on the NA-1110.
“The man on the motorbike died and the occupants of the van were unharmed.”
A spokesman for a regional emergency services coordination centre said: “A motorcyclist died Thursday afternoon after colliding with a van on the NA-1110 road, in the municipality of Iguzquiza.
“The emergency management centre received notice of the accident at 13:38 hours on Thursday and sent firefighters to the scene along with a medical team, an advanced life support medicalised ambulance, a basic life support ambulance, a medical helicopter and police traffic patrols.”
Mr Tustain was the founder and chairman of BullionVault, the world’s largest online bullion investment service, with clients and friends taking to social media to express their shock and sorrow.
One said: Paul Tustain was such a good man. I liked him so much. And in incredible influence on me as I was forming my ideas about gold and money in the early 2000s.
“He was thorough, analytical, hugely intelligent and he had one heck of a sense of humour on him – one of those people I would really enjoy making laugh. He was a terrific listener too, respectful – he always seemed to have time for you, no matter how significant or insignificant a player you are.”
