A rental vehicle driven by an English tourist who was circulating on Avenida Nuestra Señora del Carmen in the municipality of Corralejo (Fuerteventura) this Thursday crashed into a bar after leaving the road. The accident left eight injured, five of them seriously. All of them were on the terrace of the establishment.
The most seriously injured are a four-month-old baby, two women aged 18 and 49 and two men aged 40 and 43, all with serious polytrauma, who have been transferred to the Hospital de Fuerteventura, the Hospital Insular de Gran Canaria and Maternal-Child, also in Gran Canaria.
Likewise, a five-year-old girl and two men aged 44 and 50 have been injured with various moderate injuries, for which they were referred to the island hospital.
The events occurred shortly before 11:30 a.m. when the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 1-1-2 of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert informing that a vehicle had run over several people who were in a terrace on Avenida Nuestra Señora del Carmen.
1-1-2 immediately activated the necessary emergency resources and the SUC staff, with the collaboration of four doctors, two of them pediatricians, and two nurses from the Corralejo health center, provided medical assistance to the wounded at the at the scene of the incident, triaged and transferred those affected to hospitals.
The Civil Guard has opened an investigation to clarify the causes of the accident.
