Man, 24, seriously injured after crashing into tunnel wall in Guía de Isora

A 24-year-old man was seriously injured in the early hours of Sunday, 5 July 2026, after the vehicle he was driving struck the interior wall of a tunnel in the Tenerife municipality of Guía de Isora, according to the Canary Islands Government's emergency coordination centre, CECOES 112.

The crash occurred at 00:38 on the TF-82 road, at the Tejina tunnel. At that time, CECOES 112 received an alert reporting that a person required medical assistance following a collision between a vehicle and the tunnel's interior wall. The coordination centre immediately mobilised emergency resources.

Medical assessment and transfer

According to the assessment provided by the Canarian Emergency Medical Service (SUC), the injured man initially presented with multiple trauma injuries of a serious prognosis. SUC personnel treated and stabilised him at the scene before transferring him by medical ambulance to Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria.

This information is consistent across official sources and the press consulted. The Gobierno de Canarias news portal, eldiario.es and Diario de Avisos all report the same details regarding the victim's age, the time of the incident, the location and the initial diagnosis.

Resources mobilised

Several emergency services activated by CECOES 112 took part in the response. According to official information, Bomberos de Tenerife — operating through the Consorcio de Bomberos de Tenerife — extracted the injured man from the vehicle and carried out work to secure the area and facilitate the response of the other services.

The SUC deployed a medical ambulance whose crew treated, stabilised and evacuated the casualty. The Guardia Civil managed traffic in the area and opened the corresponding proceedings to establish the circumstances of the crash. Personnel from the Servicio de Carreteras marked the scene and worked to clear the road.

The sources consulted provide no information on the specific causes of the crash, which remain subject to the Guardia Civil's ongoing investigation, nor any further details on the injured man's subsequent condition at the hospital.

Other crashes on the same day

The Tejina tunnel crash occurred on a day that saw several road incidents across the archipelago. That same Sunday, according to CECOES 112, a multiple collision was recorded at 13:23 on the GC-1 motorway at kilometre 7 northbound, in the municipality of Telde (Gran Canaria), leaving three people injured: a 45-year-old woman transferred in a critical condition to Hospital Universitario Insular, a 79-year-old woman seriously injured and taken to Hospital Doctor Negrín, and a 54-year-old man with moderate trauma injuries.

Also that day, at 15:03, a 26-year-old motorcyclist suffered moderate injuries after a fall on the TF-631 road in the Tenerife municipality of Arico and was transferred to Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria.