The body of a 67-year-old British national was recovered from a remote area in Megalo Spileo, Kalavryta in Peloponnese, according to a police announcement on Friday.
According to the announcement, the British national had gone to the location with a fellow Briton to watch passing fighter jets.
However, the 67-year-old lost consciousness, for as yet unknown reasons, and his companion called for help.
Two fire engines and seven firefighters went to the location and recovered the body. It was taken to Kalavryta hospital where the Briton was officially pronounced dead. The coroner in Patras is to conduct an autopsy to determine the exact causes of the man’s death.
According to local media kalavrytanews.com, the man was member of a group of British and German hiking photographers who went to the gorge to take pictures of the passage of fighter jets participating in an international exercise.
It was them who called international emergency line <112> asking for help around 8 o’ clock on Friday morning, while they tried to revive the man.
I moved to Crete 16 years ago from the south of England and have been a driver for over 50 years. Driving in Crete is on the whole a pleasurable experience, but the one thing I cannot understand is why drivers on main busy roads stop and immediately open their doors to get out of the car without checking if the road is clear. I cannot count the amount of near misses I have had. Surely this is common sense and should be covered at driving school.
Night driving is a nightmare with so many badly adjusted headlights blinding me and so many cars with just one headlight that are mistaken for motorcycles. This is a dangerous and serious matter and I feel that headlights should be strictly monitored and checked. In the UK the police will stop and fine drivers with illegal headlights and rear lights.