Bullfighter Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez, 48, of Madrid, crashed his van into a palm tree on Sunday night at a roundabout between Alcalá de Guadaira, dos Hermanas and Seville, sources close to the Alcalá City Council confirmed to this newspaper. The right-hander emerged unharmed from the incident, but a local police officer from the town of Seville, who was the first to attend the scene, later tested positive for alcohol.
The accident occurred just before 8:30 p.m. It took place Sunday night at the access roundabout to the Real Club de Golf de Montequinto urbanization area in the Dos Hermanas neighborhood, where Rivera lives. Rivera announced his retirement from arenas last September by carrying himself out of Sevilla’s Ecija Square.
The first signs were that the bullfighter, his son, grandson, great-grandson and the bullfighter’s brother lost control of their car, climbed onto a high part of the roundabout and knocked down a palm tree. He has not yet commented on the incident.
It was Alcalá de Guadaira firefighters who intervened by freeing the vehicle, which was trapped in a roundabout after colliding with a palm tree. “There’s no need to regret personal injury,” the firefighter’s testimony was reported in X magazine. The publication was accompanied by several photos of the damaged car.
In the early hours of June 30, Pakiri’s son was arrested after being involved in an incident with a McDonald’s employee in Atocha, Madrid. A police report said the bullfighter was “visibly intoxicated” and was “ignored” when two plainclothes officers approached him. Rivera Ordoñez was handcuffed by police inside the compound and spent the night in a cell at the capital’s Centro police station. At 7 a.m. he was charged with resisting authority and disobedience and released. “I feel it necessary to make it clear that I have never been complicit in any act of aggression against law enforcement officers,” Cayetano said in a statement posted on his X account on June 30. “I also wish to record the respect I feel for the security forces and military forces whose work I value and recognize.” The right-hand man then filed a complaint for unlawful detention.
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