A 25 -year -old young man has been seriously injured this Friday at the Plaza de San Vicente de Paul, in. The Samur-Civil Protection has attended it, stabilized it and has transferred it to the Clinical Hospital.
The events have occurred a couple of minutes before twelve o’clock at night, at which time the relief call has been received, an emergency spokeswoman Madrid informs this newspaper. The man was sitting in a bench in the square when the branch of a large tree has fallen.
“It suffers a severe craniocerebral trauma and a dislocation of the left hip,” says Natividad Ramos, head of the Samur guard. It has been stabilized, intubated and transferred in serious condition and with a notice, so that they were preparing the operation, to the Clinical Hospital.
The Local Police has escorted the sanitary convoy. Meanwhile, the firefighters of the Madrid City Council have chopped the branch that has fallen and have sanitated the tree. For now, more details about what happened are unknown, if the tree was for example sick, but what is disposable is a wind fall. Even in healthy and windless trees, the sudden fall of branches can be produced if it is very hot ,.
A year and a half ago, there were no serious accidents with trees in Madrid. The last one was in November 2023, when he died after collapsing a tree in a pedestrian crossing on Almagro Street, in the middle . The tree measured 20 meters, had a contour of a meter and a half and weighed between 2,000 and 2,500 kilos.
In 2018, When a tree fell on top that the technicians had reviewed. The City Council said that the copy had been reviewed in recent days and that the technicians had ordered 40 minutes before the closure of the park due to strong wind gusts. This fact led to wind or heat parks.
In September 2014, A 72 -year -old man died crushed by a branch when he walked along the sidewalk of Virgen de las Viñas street, in the Villa de Vallecas district. Three months before, the 400 kilos when he played with his children in El Retiro Park. According to the City Council, the tree – a false acacia – was healthy, but suffered a decompensation of moisture and a heat stroke.
