ARCHIVED - Lorry driver injured in Puerto Lumbreras as truck overturns on A-7
The 44-year-old man was taken to the Rafael Méndez de Lorca Hospital with multiple injuries
Emergency services were called to the scene of a nasty accident on Saturday, April 10, 2021, in which a truck had overturned on the A-7 motorway heading towards Murcia, in the municipality of Puerto Lumbreras.
Several callers rang just after 11:19 pm, reporting the overturning of a truck, at exit 655, stating that the truck driver was trapped inside the cabin.
Guardia Civíl, firefighters from the Murcia Region Fire Extinction Consortium, with 5 firefighters and two fire trucks, road maintenance and sanitary personnel from the Emergency Management and Sanitary Emergencies 061 service, together with a Mobile Emergency Unit all attended the call-out.
The injured driver, a 44-year-old man, was transferred to the Rafael Méndez de Lorca Hospital with multiple injuries.
No information has been disclosed about the cause of the accident.