Two women were injured in a collision involving four vehicles on Tenerife on Saturday. The accident happened on the motorway TF-1 heading towards the Santa Cruz near the entrance to Radazul at the production site in the municipality of El Rosario. Firefighters freed one of the women from a vehicle. After receiving initial treatment, both women were taken to hospital.
The emergency and security coordination centre of the Canary Islands government said it received the accident report at 7.54 am on 14 November. After an initial assessment, the centre passed the information on to the relevant emergency services. It gave no details about how the collision happened or what caused it.
An 83-year-old woman had sustained moderately serious injuries, according to the initial assessment by the Canarian emergency medical service She was taken by ambulance to the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria. A 66-year-old woman had mild neck pain and was taken to the Hospital San Juan de Dios, it said.
The medical details relate to the women’s condition when they received initial treatment and were subject to possible complications. The emergency centre did not initially provide any information about their subsequent condition. It also did not say which of the two women had to be freed from the vehicle.
The Canarian emergency medical service dispatched two ambulances equipped to provide basic care. Before that, according to the report, the medical coordinator had spoken to the callers and assessed the information available. The ambulance crews examined and treated the women at the scene before taking them to hospital.
The Tenerife fire service secured the vehicles involved in the accident and helped one of the injured women out of a vehicle. The firefighters also supported the other emergency services. The report does not say what equipment was used to free her or which vehicles the women had been in.
Officers of the Guardia Civil managed traffic during the operation and recorded the accident. Road maintenance workers marked the accident scene and cleaned the carriageway. The report does not say how long the operation lasted or whether there was any disruption to traffic. It also gives no information about the responsibility of any of those involved.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).