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Six men and three women were hospitalised after the three-car collision on the CV-921 in the Vega Baja, Alicante province
Nine people were injured in a "very serious" three-car crash on the CV-921 which connects Callosa with the Orihuela district of San Bartolomé at around 12.50pm on Thursday May 26.
The impact was so intense that one of the vehicles "lost part of the engine" in the smash and another was shunted into a roadside ditch, according to Alicante Provincial Consortium of Firefighters.
A medicalised helicopter, three Samu ambulances and three Basic Life Support (SVB) units, together with six firefighters, five emergency vehicles and a Primary Care doctor were sent to the scene before the six men and three women were transferred to three different hospitals.
Although nobody was trapped, firefighters had to remove one of the injured from a vehicle in what's known as a 'safe extraction'.
A 72-year-old man, who sustained thoracic and abdominal trauma; two men, aged 37 and 63, both with multiple bruising, and a 39-year-old woman with a fractured tibia and fibula were taken to the Vega Baja Hospital in Orihuela.
A 39-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, both with multiple injuries, were transferred to Elche General Hospital.
And a 29-year-old woman and two men, aged 27 and 30, all of them with polycontusions, were taken to the Hospital del Vinalopó in Elche.
Firefighters collaborated in cleaning debris from the road to resume traffic and the road was reopened fully just before 4pm.
The cause of the crash is being investigated.
Image: Consorcio de Bomberos Alicante
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