Woman killed in crash on Ibiza is named as 27-year-old Londoner

A BRITISH woman knocked down and killed in Ibiza by a driver who failed a roadside drugs test has been named as Elizabeth Buckle, from London.

The 27-year-old was crossing a road near a roundabout linking the family resort of Santa Eulalia and the village of San Carlos when she was hi t shortly before 6.30am yesterday.

She was thought to have been staying with a relative at a house near the scene of the tragedy.

Local reports said she was seminaked at the time.

The 30-year- old woman at the wheel of the Renault Megane which knocked her down tested positive for cocaine at the scene. She was arrested and later underwent a more sensitive blood test in hospital to detect whether she was under the influence of drugs when she crashed into Ms Buckle.

The results are expected in a couple of days.

The dead woman was holidaying on the island, although she is thought to have known Ibiza well and enjoyed extended regular breaks there.

It is not clear what she was doing on the road so early in the morning, and whether she was heading back home from a night out or leaving the area.

Last Tuesday, a British holidaymaker was knocked down and killed on the neighbouring i sland of Majorca as she jogged with a friend. She was named as Hillary Jennings, 62, a hospice worker from Bradley Stoke in Gloucestershire.

The t r a ge dy h a ppened o n the Ma-2220 road running along the coast between Alcudia and Puerto Pollensa in the north-east of the island.

On August 21, expat Scot Robert Sneddon, 61, was killed by a hit-andrun driver near Guardamar del Segura on the Costa Blanca.

Police are still hunting the killer, who abandoned a Briti sh-plated Land Rover Discovery registered to a UK firm at the scene.

Mr Sneddon’s family have launched a GoFundMe appeal to raise money towards his funeral expenses.