Detained a driver after causing an accident that has left eight injured in Palma | Spain

The Civil Guard of Palma has arrested a man after causing a traffic accident in which eight people have been seriously injured, two of them in a critical condition. The detainee has tested positive for the breathalyzer test and remains arrested in units of the Palma Civil Guard Command waiting to be brought to court. He is accused of three crimes of injury and a crime of breathalyzer.

The events have occurred shortly before five in the morning on Wednesday on the road of Can Capó, the road that joins the Polygon of Son WHO, near the airport, with the core of Sant Jordi. According to research sources, the car that drove the detainee, BMW’s brand, has invaded the opposite lane and has hit a red Kia Picanto. Fruit of the strong impact, eight people have been injured and two of them have been transferred to the hospital in critical condition.

After the impact, the Medical Emergency Coordination Center has sent to the Civil Guard, a firefighters, two medicalized 061 ambulances, a private medicalized ambulance, two basic ambulances of 061 and a private basic ambulance. At the site of the incident, doctors have attended two women, who have been transferred in a critical condition to the Son Espase University Hospital. In this same health center, another less serious injured woman has entered and the detainee driver. Two other women, one serious and a slight one, have been transferred to the near Hospital of Son Llàtzer, while two other injured, a man and a woman, have been transferred to two private centers with minor wounds.

The cause of the accident has undergone a breathalyzer test, which has been positive. He has been arrested after receiving the first priests in the hospital. Agents of the Civil Guard of Traffic have moved to the site of the incident to investigate the causes of the accident and perform the attestation. The main hypothesis of the researchers is that the man, under the influence of alcohol, invaded the opposite lane that circulated the Kia Picanto conducted by a woman, with whom he crashed frontally.