A rental vehicle driven by a english tourist that was circulating this Thursday along Avenida Nuestra Señora del Carmen in the municipality of Corralejo (Fuerteventura) has crashed into a business after leaving the road in an accident that has also affected a terrace and that has left a total of eight injured, five of them seriously.
The most seriously injured are a four month old babytwo women aged 18 and 49 and two men aged 40 and 43, all with severe polytrauma, who have been transferred to the Hospital de Fuerteventura, the Hospital Insular de Gran Canaria and the Maternal and Child Hospital, also in Gran Canaria.
They have also been injured five year old girl and two men aged 44 and 50 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 on a terrace on Avenida Nuestra Señora del Carmen.
1-1-2 immediately activated the necessary emergency resources and SUC personnel, with the collaboration of four doctors, two of them pediatricians, and two nurses from the Corralejo health centerprovided medical assistance to the injured at the scene of the incident, carried out triage and transferred those affected to hospitals.