A British tourist is fighting for her life after being pulled from the wreck of a horror crash on the island of Menorca. The 59-year-old woman was one of two British tourists rescued from the crash at around 10.30am yesterday morning. Paramedics rushed her to intensive care at Mateur Orfila Hospital in the island’s capital of Mahon.
In total there were three cars involved in the devastating crash, including one being driven by a 21-year-old Spanish male who also sustained critical injuries. He was taken to the same intensive care unit. According to initial reports, the Spanish man had veered on to the wrong side of the Me-1 road as he drove towards the capital. At the site of the crash, firefighters had to cut him out of his vehicle.
Two women, aged 19 and 29, were also taken to hospital. One of the women was a Spanish national, according to The Sun.
Horrifying images from the scene showed two cars obliterated in the mangled wreck. An investigation has now been launched, with Civil Guard traffic officers responsible for the probe.
An ambulance service spokesman, confirming the severity of the incident, confirmed: “Three cars were involved and five people injured.
“Firefighters had to free two of the casualties, a woman aged around 60 and a man in his twenties.
“One of the five injured people were treated at the scene and didn’t require a hospital transfer.”
In September last year a British father and his two sons were injured in a head-on death crash in Menorca.
The trio were travelling in a taxi which smashed into a rental car carrying a female passenger who died.
One of the British youngsters, aged 20, suffered serious head injuries and was stabilised at the scene before being transferred to the Mateu Orfila Hospital.
A 24-year-old described as his brother was also seriously hurt, suffering multiple injuries including a broken leg. Their 46-year-old father and the taxi driver were also hurt but not seriously.
The woman killed was a 72-year-old Argentinian national who was a front-seat passenger in the Kia Stonic hire car that collided with the taxi.
Her 64-year-old husband, who was driving, suffered serious chest injuries.
The tragedy happened near the inland town of Ferreries, one of the most picturesque on the island, on the road between Mahon and Ciutadella.
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