Three injured, one woman critically hurt, in multi-vehicle crash on the GC-1 in Telde

Three people were injured on Sunday, 5 July, in a multi-vehicle collision on the GC-1 motorway at kilometre 7, northbound, in the municipality of Telde. The incident was reported by the Centro Coordinador de Emergencias y Seguridad (CECOES) 112 of the Gobierno de Canarias.

According to the official information from 112, the alert was received at 13:23 and reported a collision involving several vehicles with multiple occupants requiring medical attention at the scene. The coordination centre immediately activated emergency resources.

Condition of those involved

Based on the assessment provided by the Servicio de Urgencias Canario (SUC), the most seriously injured person is a 45-year-old woman who, at the time of initial treatment, had suffered multiple traumatic injuries assessed as life-threatening. After being stabilised, she was transported by an SUC advanced life support ambulance and admitted to the Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria in a critical condition.

A second casualty, a 79-year-old woman, sustained multiple serious traumatic injuries and was taken by an SUC medical ambulance to the Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín.

The third casualty is a 54-year-old man who suffered several moderate traumatic injuries. He was transported by an SUC basic life support ambulance to the Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria.

Resources deployed

CECOES 112 mobilised one advanced life support ambulance, one medical ambulance and two basic life support ambulances from the SUC, along with personnel from the Consorcio de Emergencias de Gran Canaria, the Guardia Civil and the Servicio de Carreteras.

According to 112, firefighters from the Consorcio de Gran Canaria freed one of the women from inside one of the vehicles and secured the area to allow medical teams to work. SUC personnel treated the casualties and stabilised two of them before transferring them to different hospitals.

The Guardia Civil managed traffic and opened proceedings to establish the circumstances of the accident. The Servicio de Carreteras signposted the scene and worked to clear the road, one of the island's main arterial routes.

Vehicles involved and traffic disruption

The Gobierno de Canarias official portal and other sources consulted agree on the number of casualties, the time of the alert and the resources deployed. Regarding the vehicles involved, local outlet Telde Ojeando reports that several vehicles and a public transport bus were caught up in the crash, and that one car ended up overturned on the road; it places the scene near the ITV station at Bicabarranco and the Las Terrazas junction. According to that same source, the accident caused a tailback that reached the airport area at around 14:00 and caused significant disruption to southbound traffic. Atlántico Hoy also locates the incident near the Las Terrazas shopping centre.

Those details about the vehicles involved and the traffic delays do not appear in the official CECOES 112 communication, which describes only a collision involving several vehicles without specifying their number or type.

The SUC notes that firefighters from the Consorcio de Gran Canaria attended the scene, although, according to the official statement, their intervention was ultimately not required beyond freeing the trapped woman and securing the area, as reported by several sources.