Injured After Impacting a Stone Wall and Overturning in Los Valles

Firefighters had to extract the driver and sole occupant from inside the vehicle. The Local Police, the Civil Guard, Civil Protection and an ambulance also went to the scene of the accident.

March 4 2023 (09:15 WET)
Updated in March 4 2023 (09:41 WET)
Car overturned in Los Valles
Car overturned in Los Valles

A 43-year-old man was injured after crashing his vehicle into a stone wall and overturning in Los Valles. The accident occurred at approximately 2:45 a.m. this Saturday near the town's Teleclub, according to reports from the Emergency Consortium. 

Upon being alerted by CECOES, a medicalized ambulance from the Canary Islands Emergency Service, the Civil Guard, firefighters, and Local Police were dispatched to the scene.

Upon arriving at the accident, firefighters found the vehicle in a lateral and unstable position, with a danger of falling. The driver was inside, with one hand trapped between the car and the ground. Emergency personnel first freed the hand and then extricated the injured man, transferring him on a stretcher to the medicalized ambulance. 

Accidente en Los Valles
Accidente en Los Valles

The healthcare personnel attended to the affected individual, who presented with a moderate trauma to one arm, and was subsequently evacuated by ambulance to the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital.

The Local Police and the Civil Guard were in charge of carrying out the corresponding report. For its part, Civil Protection collaborated with the rest of the emergency resources.

Los bomberos junto al vehñiculo accidentado
Firefighters next to the wrecked vehicle

 

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