Three members of the same family were seriously injured this Friday after their car overturned in the vicinity of the Madrid town of La Cabrera, Emergencies 112 reported.
The traffic accident, in which no other vehicles were involved, took place around 12:30 p.m. at kilometer 57 of the A-1 highway heading out of the Community of Madrid.
In circumstances that are now being investigated by the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard, the driver has lost control of the vehicle, which has flipped several times until it overturned on the side of the road.
One of the passengers, an 83-year-old man, was trapped inside the car and had to be rescued by firefighters. He suffers facial and chest trauma and has been transferred by helicopter to La Paz Hospital with a serious prognosis.
His wife, also 83 years old, suffers chest trauma and a fracture in an arm and has been transferred to the 12 de Octubre Hospital, also with a serious prognosis.
Their daughter, 52 years old, has been treated – like the rest of the injured – by the Summa 112 health workers for a trauma to the hip and has been transferred to an ICU to La Paz, with a potentially serious prognosis.
After the accident, firefighters have cleaned the road to restore normal traffic.
