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Fatal car accident
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From Radio Sintonia:

Fallece una mujer en una colisión frontal de dos turismos en Fuerteventura.

A woman dies and another person is slightly injured in a frontal collision of two cars in Fuerteventura. The accident occurred in FV-2, at the height of the crossing of Las Arañas, Tuineje, today February 13, 2022 around 07:20 hours.

 
Assessment of those affected provided by the SUC:

  • Woman, deceased
  • Male (driver of the vehicle that overturned), with trauma to the upper limb of a mild nature, transferred in an ambulance of basic life support of the SUC to the General Hospital of Fuerteventura.

Intervening services activated by CECOES 1-1-2:

  • Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC): basic life support ambulance
  • Fuerteventura Emergencies
  • Civil Guard

Remarks:

  • At the time indicated above, an alert is received at the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 1-1-2 reporting a frontal collision between two cars with the overturning of one of them and a trapped person.
  • The 1-1-2 immediately activated the necessary emergency resources.
  • SUC staff assisted and took the driver of the overturned vehicle to the hospital, while the driver of the other vehicle was trapped inside and died.
  • Fuerteventura Emergency Firefighters released the trapped driver and secured the vehicles.
  • Civil Guard instructed the corresponding proceedings.
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Tragic news.

We drove passed just after it occured, and saw the unfortunate victim laid out on the side of the road, for all to see. Not something they would do in the UK.

The cars must have collided head-on at a fair speed, as they were really badly damaged, and debris everywhere.

D.E.P.
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