Cyclist Seriously Injured After Crash in Lajares

The accident occurred this morning near Calderón Hondo

At around 9 a.m. this Sunday, an accident happened on a dirt track close to Calderón Hondo. A 65‑year‑old man suffered a crash and, at the initial moment of assistance, presented severe head trauma, being transferred in a medicalized ambulance of the SUC to the General Hospital of Fuerteventura.

At the same time, the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 112 of the Government of the Canary Islands received an alert requesting medical assistance for a cyclist who had fallen in the aforementioned area.

Health personnel from the local health centre, dispatched in the basic life‑support ambulance of the SUC to the incident site, together with the staff of the medicalized ambulance, attended to the injured cyclist. After stabilizing him, they proceeded with his transfer to the hospital.

Because of the difficult terrain, fire‑brigade units collaborated with the medical staff.