Canary Islands bus crash newest: British pensioner, 77, dies and 27 injured after vacationer bus plunges into ravine | EUROtoday

A 77-year-old British man has died after a vacationer bus crashed right into a ravine within the Canary Islands on Friday.

The man has not but been recognized.

A international workplace spokesperson mentioned: “We are supporting the family of a British man who died in the bus accident in the Canary Islands and are in contact with the local authorities.”

The Independent’s journey correspondent, Simon Calder, has offered background on La Gomera:

This was a horrific accident on a phenomenal island. La Gomera shouldn’t be a mainstream vacation spot for British travellers. It’s a small and mountainous isle to the west of the largest Canary Island, Tenerife. The resident inhabitants of round 23,000 compares with nearly one million on Tenerife.

Unlike a lot of the Canary Islands, La Gomera has no worldwide airport. Many of the individuals who spend time there are hikers – particularly British and German.

But there are additionally day journeys run from the massive resorts on the south western finish of Tenerife together with Costa Adeje, Las Americas and Los Cristianos – which is the departure level from the ferry.

The voyage takes about an hour, and is adopted by a coach tour of the scenic areas in addition to a cease for lunch.

These journeys have been working for a few years with out incident. But inevitably in a location with slender mountain roads, the dangers are larger than in flat terrain.

After a bus stuffed with British vacationers veered off the street on Friday, the Canary Islands emergency and safety coordination centre obtained an alert informing them of the crash.

The emergency service mentioned it activated the mandatory emergency sources and deployed two medical helicopters, one medical ambulance, two fundamental life help ambulances, and two non-urgent well being transport items.

Health companies assessed these injured on the scene and transferred a number of of them to the hospital.

Red Cross and civil safety items had been additionally in attendance and took these with much less extreme accidents to the hospital.

A 73 and 42 yr outdated man had been amongst these critically injured within the lethal bus crash in La Gomera on Friday and had been transferred to the island’s Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Hospital earlier than being flown to the hospitals in Tenerife.

Police investigating the bus crash in La Gomera suspect {that a} brake failure might have triggered the coach to come back off the street.

Juan Luis Navarro, the island director of⁠ ⁠the overall state administration, informed journalists that the driving force detected an issue with braking and “tried to⁠ ⁠fight” it, native media reported.

The bus then got here off the street and rolled down the slope, he mentioned.

“Fortunately, it stopped before being thrown off the road. Otherwise it could have been much more serious.”

The Independent’s journey correspondent, Simon Calder, has offered background on La Gomera:

This was a horrific accident on a phenomenal island. La Gomera shouldn’t be a mainstream vacation spot for British travellers. It’s a small and mountainous isle to the west of the largest Canary Island, Tenerife. The resident inhabitants of round 23,000 compares with nearly one million on Tenerife.

Unlike a lot of the Canary Islands, La Gomera has no worldwide airport. Many of the individuals who spend time there are hikers – particularly British and German.

But there are additionally day journeys run from the massive resorts on the south western finish of Tenerife together with Costa Adeje, Las Americas and Los Cristianos – which is the departure level from the ferry.

The voyage takes about an hour, and is adopted by a coach tour of the scenic areas in addition to a cease for lunch.

These journeys have been working for a few years with out incident. But inevitably in a location with slender mountain roads, the dangers are larger than in flat terrain.

The British vacationers concerned within the lethal bus crash in La Gomera had been on their strategy to the airport to return to the UK, tour operator Holiday Property Bond has mentioned.

It is known that each one passengers on the bus had been British, together with the person who died.

Another 4 vacationers are in severe situation and are being handled in hospital.

The UK authorities has confirmed the person who died within the bus crash in La Gomera on Friday was a British nationwide.

It mentioned it was supporting his household following the incident.

A international workplace spokesperson mentioned: “We are supporting the family of a British man who died in the bus accident in the Canary Islands and are in contact with the local authorities.”

Earlier, Yvette Cooper mentioned: “My thoughts are with those affected by the tragic incident involving a bus carrying British holidaymakers in the Canary Islands.

“We are in touch with the local authorities & ready to support Brits & their families.”