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Serious injuries after buggy fall in San Bartolomé de Tirajana
A 24-year-old man was seriously injured on Friday afternoon after falling from the buggy he was driving along a difficult-to-access track in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, according to the Canary Islands emergency services (1-1-2).
Alert received shortly before 3.40pm
At around 3.40pm, the Emergency and Security Coordination Centre (CECOES) received an alert reporting that a young man had fallen from a buggy on a dirt track with difficult access at Lomo de las Fuentes.
Airlifted to the Insular University Hospital
On arrival at the scene, medical staff assessed and treated the injured man, who initially presented with trauma of a serious prognosis. After the patient was stabilised, the medical team requested an aerial evacuation owing to the terrain and the nature of his injuries, and he was flown by a GES helicopter to Maspalomas aerodrome, from where a SUC helicopter transferred him to the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria.
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