Fatal motorbike accident

Location of the crash

A motorbike collided with a car between El Guro and Los Granados in Valle Gran Rey at around 9:15 last night, resulting in the death of the driver of the high-powered motorcycle. His pillion passenger suffered severe injuries but is said to be stable in hospital. The cause of the accident is yet unknown.

I passed the scene of the accident by public bus shortly after the incident had happened and I was shocked by what I saw. The dead man was lying in the middle of the road covered in a blanket and it took me some time to identify a twisted lump of metal as the remains of a motorbike. Police was on the scene diverting traffic past the scene of the accident. The car involved in the collision appeared to have only minor damage. 

Serious motorbike crash in Arure

A motorcyclist was severely injured yesterday afternoon when his rented bike left the road and he subsequently collided with a rock near the cemetery of Arure, a mountain village in the municipal area of Valle Gran Rey on La Gomera. The German tourist in his mid-fifties suffered multiple serious injuries and was first transferred by ambulance to the quay in the harbour where an air ambulance landed immediately after. It took the emergency services more than an hour to stabilise the patient sufficiently for further transport by helicopter to the university hospital on Tenerife.

Arure, taken from near the scene of the accident