Accident with the elevator, a car crashes into the shaft of a freight elevator

Six people were injured following a car accident occurred in Spain. But beware, the accident is very strange, it did not take place on the road but in the compartment of a elevator! We are in the parking lot of the Gran Hotel Sardinero of Santander, where the emergency services of the Cantabria following the tremendous impact.

Following theaccident, which took place around 18:10 on Sunday, i fire fighters of Santander they had to free six people trapped in the car inside an elevator shaft, of which four were transported by ambulance toUniversity Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, all with minor injuries.

Car falls into the elevator shaft, the dynamics of the accident in Spain in the elevator

In the unusual accident, a car she fell into the elevator shaft of the hotel, a freight elevator used to move cars. Specifically, and for reasons still unknown, the elevator access door was opened without the platform being on the floor.

Accident, car falls into the elevator shaft. one of the two cars involved in the accident in Santander

The driver behind the wheel, seeing the door open, started moving forward to cross the elevator door. Not finding the platform but the vacuum of the trumpet fell into the void and crashed into another car much lower than it was on the platform.

Spain car accident inside the freight elevator, rescue intervention

Firefighters attempted to retrieve the car with two teams, one crane and a total of 13 firefighters.

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In one of the vehicles there were two passengers, rescued on the spot by the staff of the Emergency Service and Health Emergency 061, and in the other four people, also treated and subsequently transferred by ambulance to the Marqués de Valdecilla Hospital.

The intervention, coordinated by the 112 First Aid Center, was assisted by the National Police Corps and the Local Police.

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