A 24-year-old motorcyclist has been killed in an accident in Santa Lucía de Tirajana on Gran Canaria. At around 0.53 am on Sunday, the 112 emergency call centre received a report that a man was lying on the ground on Avenida Las Bajas.
An emergency doctor’s vehicle and an ambulance were dispatched to the scene of the accident. By the time the paramedics arrived, they could only confirm that the man had died. According to the incident report from the 112 emergency call centre, the local police have taken charge of the investigation.
According to incident reports from the 112 emergency call centre, this was already the fourth motorbike accident in Santa Lucía de Tirajana since the start of the year. Across the island as a whole, these reports now show more road deaths than in the previous year.
Gran Canaria: 16 road deaths recorded since January
According to the 112 emergency call centre, 16 people have died in road traffic accidents on Gran Canaria since January, including the young motorcyclist. A year earlier, the death toll for the same period stood at 14. However, only cases reported by the 112 emergency call centre are counted; not every fatality is recorded there. On 6 November, people lost their lives in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, and on 13 October in Arucas. The 112 emergency call centre also reported further fatal accidents on 29 August in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, on 1 August in Mogán and on 9 July in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
The Spanish Traffic Authority (DGT) reports a contrasting trend for the Canary Islands as a whole: 38 people had died on the islands‘ country roads by 12 November, 19.1 per cent fewer than the 47 fatalities recorded during the same period last year. However, the DGT only records figures for rural roads, whilst reports from the 112 emergency call centre also include accidents within built-up areas. The extent of this gap is illustrated by figures from the Statistical Office ISTAC for 2024, which show that 23 of the 69 road deaths in the Canary Islands occurred in urban traffic.
Motorcycle accidents with fatal consequences also occur elsewhere. In October, one person was killed in a night-time motorcycle accident on the TF-1 in Tenerife. Earlier, on Gran Canaria, a young rider had suffered life-threatening injuries in a serious motorcycle accident in Firgas.
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