Two injured after a vehicle fell into the Barranco de Chira in Gran Canaria

A spectacular accident that occurred on Thursday morning has left two people injured, after a vehicle with five occupants plunged into a 15-metre ravine on the road between Pinar de Pilancones and the Chira dam, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana.

 

At 10:44 a.m., the Emergency and Security Coordination Centre (CECOES) 1-1-2 of the Canary Islands Government received an alert reporting the incident. According to the preliminary report, the vehicle overturned before falling down the slope, which led to the rapid mobilization of the emergency services.

 

 

The Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) immediately activated a medical helicopter, a medical ambulance and a basic life support ambulance to care for those affected. One of the injured, a man with moderate chest trauma, was rescued by the SUC helicopter and transferred by medical ambulance to the Roca Clinic, after being treated at the Berriel helipad.

 

A 48-year-old woman, who also suffered moderate head trauma, was taken by a basic life support ambulance to the same clinic for specialized medical care.

 

 

The SUC medical staff assessed and assisted the other three occupants of the vehicle, although only one of them required hospital transfer. The Civil Guard, for its part, went to the scene to prepare the corresponding report and collaborate in the rescue efforts.

 

The exact circumstances leading to the accident remain under investigation, but the rapid intervention of emergency services prevented a more tragic outcome.