A driver suffered an accident and decided to get out of the car, only to fall down a 2.5-metre deep, rain culvert.

This occurred Sunday night in Teba (Antequera, Málaga) and the incident required a complicated rescue operation to retrieve the 58-year-old driver.

The emergency coordination centre, 112, received the first call from witnesses that a driver had lost control of his vehicle causing it to leave the road.

The driver got out of the car and because of being dazed by the impact, didn’t see the deep culvert and toppled in.

The Guardia Civil sent a patrol car and were later joined by fire personnel from Campillos, who extracted the victim. An ambulance then took him to Hospital de la Serranía de Ronda

Anectdotal information: according to Wikipedia, “Teba has a monument to a Scottish noble: In the so-called Battle of Teba, a war event that had as its main consequence the capture of the Castillo de la Estrella by Alfonso XI in August 1330, the Scottish nobleman, Sir James Douglas, died along with a group of Scots, while trying to help the Castilian king in the conquest of the fortress. The reason for his presence there is given by having been commissioned by the liberating king of Scotland, Robert I of Scotland, who had achieved independence from England before dying of leprosy, to take his embalmed heart to the Holy Land. Scottish legends tell that Sir James threw his king’s heart to the Muslims who had ambushed him, thus fulfilling the king’s wish to fight the infidels. In memory of this event, a monument was erected in the town, which is twinned with the Scottish town of Melrose. Likewise, and in commemoration of the events, a festive day known as Douglas’s Day is celebrated annually in Teba.”

Editorial note: The choice of article title is a Spanish expression playing on the country’s name and means ‘from bad to worse.’

(News: Teba, Antequera, Malaga, Andalucia)

Keywords: Driver, Lost Control, Deep Rain Culvert, Fire Personnel, Rescued

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