Two seriously injured and three moderately injured in head‑on crash near Pozo Negro intersection

A frontal collision between two vehicles recorded this Monday in Fuerteventura resulted in five people injured, two of them seriously, according to the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 1‑1‑2 of the Government of the Canary Islands.

The accident occurred around 16:00 when the 1‑1‑2 received an alert reporting the impact between the two cars. The Center immediately activated the necessary emergency resources.

Personnel from the Prevention, Fire Extinction and Rescue Service (SPEIS) of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura secured the vehicles involved and freed two occupants who had been trapped inside one of the cabins.

Staff from the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) attended to a total of five people. A 25‑year‑old woman and a 49‑year‑old man, both with severe polytrauma, were transferred in medicalised ambulances to the General Hospital of Fuerteventura Virgen de la Peña. Another 25‑year‑old woman, a 30‑year‑old man, and a 15‑year‑old minor, who suffered moderate multiple injuries, were evacuated in basic‑life‑support ambulances to the same hospital.

The Civil Guard regulated traffic in the area and took charge of the corresponding report.