A MAN died on holiday in Spain after being hit by a truck, a Huddersfield inquest heard.
Mr Michael Harrisson, 56, an education expert, of Gledholt Road, Gledholt, had gone to Barcelona with his wife Margaret on May 2 this year.
In a statement to the inquest, Mrs Harrisson said that on Sunday May 4, the couple had been on a cultural sightseeing tour and to the Picasso Museum.
They were making their way back to the hotel at about 5pm when the accident happened.
Mrs Harrisson said the couple had been standing on the pavement, diagonally across from the hotel.
Her husband, a project manager for Education Leeds, started to cross the single-lane road when she suddenly noticed a moped coming down the road and shouted his name.
He turned round and tried to return to the pavement but was hit by a pick-up truck behind the moped.
Her husband was knocked unconscious and was taken to hospital.
Mrs Harrisson said she was not allowed to travel to hospital in the ambulance and went instead in a police car.
The hotel receptionist also came to assist with languages.
Mr Nuria Miquel Juani said in a statement to the inquest that he was riding his moped at 5.40pm on the Gran Via Corts Catalanes when he saw a pedestrian on the pavement.
He estimated he was driving at around 50kmh.
He then saw the pedestrian in the road, looking in the wrong direction.
Realising he did not have enough time to sound the horn or brake he swerved to the right to avoid hitting him.
He then heard shouts from behind and stopped, thinking the pedestrian had been hit.
He went to a hotel and asked the receptionist to call an ambulance.
Two post-mortem examinations were conducted, one in Spain and one in England.
Dr George Thomas, a consultant pathologist at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, said that Mr Harrisson died of multiple injuries.
Coroner Roger Whittaker said that truck driver Arthur Manuel Don Santos Da Fonseca had been charged with driving over the drink-drive limit.
He recorded a verdict of accidental death
