One person was killed and 12 people were injured in different accidents in Tenerife and Gran Canaria over the weekend, including a four-car pileup that saw nine people seriously hurt.
The Emergency Services Coordination Centre (CECOES) reported an accident in El Medano in the south of Tenerife on Saturday night, after receiving an alert at 10:20pm informing that somebody had been knocked over in a ‘hit and run’ on the TF-64, the road that runs downhill to the town.
After receiving the alert, the emergency services were dispatched immediately to the location given, where paramedics found a 68-year-old man with no vital signs and could do nothing to save his life, confirming his death at the scene of the fatal accident.
NINE INJURED IN LAS PALMAS:
Nine people were injured, one of them seriously, in a four-car accident in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria in the early hours of Sunday morning, on Avenida Marítima (GC-1), near the Guardia Civil headquarters (pictured above).
CECOES and the Local Police reported that the incident took place at around 4:00am, with one of the cars rolling and crashing into a palm tree completely knocking it over, affecting cars travelling in the opposite direction on the south carriageway.
The emergency services immediately went to the scene, and treated several people for various injuries at the scene of the accident, as well as others affected by the fall of the palm tree, before transferring some of them to the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria for further treatment.
Police say that all involved were lucking to be alive as all the vehicles involved were completely deformed by the impact. One of these was the 34-year-old driver of one of the cars who tested positive for drunk driving.
ACCIDENT IN SOUTH TENERIFE WITH KAMIKAZE DRIVER GOING WRONG WAY ON TF-1:
In another incident in the municipality of Guía de Isora in the south of Tenerife, a man of unknown age was injured in an accident on the TF-1, not far from the junction for Playa San Juan and Alcala on the new section of the motorway.
According to CECOES, the accident happened at around 10:45pm on Saturday night, when a collision was reported between a car travelling in the wrong direction on the TF-1 and five other vehicles that managed to swerve to avoid, what would have been, a fatal head-on collision.
The driver who caused the accident was the one injured and needed treatment at the scene of the accident by SUC personnel before being transferred to a hospital for further evaluation. Police say that the other people involved are lucky to be alive after the reckless actions of the 'kamikaze' driver.
ANOTHER SERIOUS HIT-AND-RUN IN GRAN CANARIA:
A 50-year-old man was injured in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, when he was run over on Avenida Marítima del Norte, near the Casa del Marino at 3:45am yesterday morning (Sunday), as reported by CECOES.
After receiving the alert, personnel of the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) went to the scene and assisted the injured man who had several serious fractures and was transferred to the Doctor Negrín University Hospital to receive specialized medical care.
