At around 14:12 p.m., the Emergency and Security Coordinating Center (CECOES) 1-1-2 of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert reporting that a car had fallen down a slope of more than fifteen meters with a person. inside on the GC-65 highway, municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana.
A 57-year-old man who, at the initial moment of assistance, had moderate multiple contusions, was rescued by the GES helicopter and transferred to the helisurface of the Doctor Negrín University Hospital. There, a medicalized ambulance from the SUC was waiting for him, whose health personnel assessed and assisted the affected person and evacuated him to the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria.
1-1-2 immediately activated the necessary emergency resources. The Firefighters collaborated with the rest of the emergency resources and the Civil Guard instructed the corresponding procedures.