A 34-year-old man died in the early hours of yesterday morning when he was run over when he was changing a wheel on his vehicle on the hard shoulder of the South Tenerife (TF-1) motorway, at the height of the municipality of Guía de Isora. The events occurred minutes before 7:00 a.m. at kilometer 88 of the road, in the direction of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The victim, identified as EHG, suffered a flat or blowout in one of the tires on his full-size van. And she decided to get off and try to change it on the spot. Due to circumstances that are being investigated by professionals from the Traffic Civil Guard, the driver of an Opel Astra ran over him and caused him very serious injuries.
The operating room of 112 activated personnel from a medicalized ambulance and another basic one from the Canary Emergency Service. Doctors, nurses and other health personnel came to try to recover the victim, but could only confirm her death.