20-year-old man seriously injured during a screening in Mértola



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The detection of a car, followed by a rollover, imprisoned the driver, a 20-year-old man, the sole occupant of the vehicle, who was transferred to the José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital, in Beja, in a condition considered very serious.

The accident occurred around 6.15 pm, at kilometer 60.5 of the National Road 122, near the town of Álamo, in the municipality of Mértola, in a south / north direction, when the young man was moving towards the village bathed by the river Guadiana.

The causes of the accident are not yet known, but the heavy rain that hit the area where the car was traveling may have contributed to the departure from the road. The vehicle collided with a eucalyptus tree and fell off a cliff about five meters from the road.

According to JN, the victim has spinal and chest injuries and head abrasions, having been transferred to the Emergency Service of the Bejense hospital unit, in a Mértola Voluntary Firefighters (BVM) ambulance, accompanied by the support vehicle. Castro Verde Immediate Life Insurance (SIV).

For the relief operations, the BVM deployed 12 operational personnel, six rescue ambulance teams, four extraction teams and command DPIs, supported by six vehicles, to which four more elements and two SIV and GNR vehicles were added. of Mértola.



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