Woman Injured as Car Plunges 20m into Tenerife Ravine
A 20-year-old woman was hospitalized with a head injury after the car she was in with her father fell 20 meters into a ravine in La Laguna, Tenerife, on Saturday night.
A 20-year-old woman was hurt on Saturday night when the car she was in fell about 20 meters into a ravine in Tenerife's metropolitan area. Both she and her father, who was also in the car, managed to get out of the vehicle themselves, sources said.
The crash happened after 10:30 PM last night at Curva de Gracia, in La Laguna. Local Police are investigating what caused it.
The woman and her father were driving a Seat Ibiza along Avenida de Los Menceyes, heading from La Laguna towards La Cuesta. After passing the historic Santa María de Gracia church, the car left the road. It went over the curb, broke a sign, crashed through the metal guardrail, and then tumbled into the ravine, where it landed upside down.
Sources reported that the car didn't fall straight to the bottom of the ravine but bounced over several rough parts of the ground.
The 1-1-2 emergency services called out firefighters from the Tenerife Consortium's San Benito station, volunteer firefighters from La Laguna, ambulance crews, and Local Police.
The young woman reportedly had a head injury, but her 52-year-old father seemed to be unhurt. Paramedics from the Canarian Emergency Service (SUC) took the woman to the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC).