On the GC-1 heading south, in the area of Juan Grande within the municipal area San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Gran Canaria), a car overturned at 8.29 pm on 28 October 2026. The Centro Coordinador de Emergencias y Seguridad (CECOES) 112 of the Government of the Canary Islands received the alert and activated the relevant emergency services. When emergency crews arrived, all occupants were already outside the vehicle, according to the control centre.
The Consorcio de Emergencias de Gran Canaria made the crashed vehicle safe and assisted with rescue operations at the scene. Medical assistance was coordinated by the Servicio de Urgencias Canario (SUC) : an ambulance with a doctor and two basic life-support ambulances were dispatched. Medical staff treated four people. A 49-year-old woman was initially assessed as having multiple moderate injuries and taken for further treatment to the Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria Three teenagers aged 16, 15 and 13 were initially assessed as having minor bruises and contusions and were treated at the scene.
The Guardia Civil managed traffic and completed the accident report. Staff from the Servicio de Conservación de Carreteras of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria made the scene safe and cleared the road. The reports contained no indication of lengthy closures or significant traffic disruption.
The injury classifications and ages are from the CECOES 112 press release and were confirmed by the Europa Press news agency. The authorities initially gave no information about the cause of the accident; the Guardia Civil is conducting routine enquiries, including checks on the vehicle’s condition, the road surface and possible driver error. At the time of the available reports, there was no further official information about the cause or the injured people’s subsequent health.
The incident illustrates the usual response to road accidents in the Canary Islands: central alerting through CECOES 112, coordinated deployment of medical, fire and traffic services, followed by police and road-management measures by the Guardia Civil and Cabildo.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).