Article: Man dies in double crash horror An ambulance taking a fatally injured motorcyclist to Torbay Hospital was itself involved in a collision minutes later at Paignton's notoriously busy Tweenaway Cross yesterday.

An ambulance taking a fatally injured motorcyclist to Torbay Hospital was itself involved in a collision minutes later at Paignton's notoriously busy Tweenaway Cross yesterday.

The double collision involving the 24-year-old rider from Torquay, who was pronounced dead at Torbay Hospital, brought Paignton to Brixham traffic to a standstill for seven hours.

The initial accident happened three miles away at a blackspot junction outside Churston Ferrers Grammar School just before 8am, when the motorcyclist's 550cc Kawasaki collided with a blue Skoda pick-up truck from Merc Ltd in Brixham. The motorbike then bounced into the path of oncoming traffic.

The rider slid underneath the front of a white ...

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