La Gomera bus crash

A tourist coach on La Gomera left the GM-2 road on Friday afternoon and ended up down a ravine near San Sebastián de La Gomera, turning a routine transfer into a mass-casualty rescue within minutes. Spanish emergency services said one person died and 27 others were injured. (apnews.com) The crash was reported just after 1:15 p.m. local time on April 10, 2026, on a mountain road that links the island’s south with its capital and ferry port. Local reports placed the bus near El Revolcadero, close to the environmental complex outside San Sebastián. (apnews.com) (canarias7.es) Most of the passengers were British tourists, and British outlets said the person who died was a 77-year-old British man. Reuters and other reports said the driver was Spanish. (gbnews.com) (yahoo.com) The bus was reportedly carrying 28 people in total, including the driver, and some reports said there were three children on board. Several outlets said the group was heading to the port to catch a ferry to Tenerife at the end of their stay. (lavanguardia.com) (independent.co.uk) (spainenglish.com) La Gomera is one of the smaller Canary Islands, and its roads are steep, narrow, and cut into volcanic slopes, so a vehicle leaving the pavement can drop fast. Photos from the scene showed the coach below the road after coming off a bend. (apnews.com) (yahoo.com) The rescue was unusually complex because the injured were scattered between the road and the slope below it. Canary Islands emergency services sent multiple ambulances, a medical helicopter, and a rescue helicopter to lift out the most seriously hurt passengers. (noticiasdenavarra.com) (gomeranoticias.com) By later updates, local media said four people were classified as seriously injured and more than 20 others had lighter injuries, with some patients flown to hospitals on Tenerife because La Gomera has more limited hospital capacity. That is the practical problem on smaller islands: the first hospital may stabilize you, but the bigger hospital is often on another island. (gomeranoticias.com) (elcorreogallego.es) Canary Islands president Fernando Clavijo publicly said he was following the emergency response, and the British government said it was in contact with local authorities and ready to support British nationals. That tells you how quickly a local road crash became both a regional emergency and a consular case. (canarias7.es) (globalnews.ca) Spanish and British reporting still differed on some details in the first day, including the exact count of serious injuries and whether the bus was heading for a ferry or a boat excursion. The core facts did not change: the crash happened on the GM-2 near San Sebastián on April 10, one passenger died, and dozens of mostly British tourists were pulled out injured. (apnews.com) (sky.com)