Emergency services received an alert at 10:25 AM regarding a collision at kilometer 49 of the highway, heading west-east from Albufeira to Spain, in the Albufeira municipality, Faro district, as confirmed by the Civil Protection authorities.
“The incident involved a collision between two passenger vehicles,” stated a source from the Algarve sub-regional command, clarifying that “five individuals were assisted as a result of the accident, but none were transported to the hospital.”
The source further detailed that the five injured individuals consisted of four occupants from one vehicle, a man aged 80 and three women aged 74, 48, and 13, all of Portuguese nationality, along with the driver of the other involved vehicle, a 90-year-old German national.
The source emphasized that one of the vehicles was traveling in the wrong direction, an alert that reached emergency teams through a call to 112 requesting assistance, later verified on the scene by firefighters.
A Public Relations representative from the Faro Territorial Command of the GNR informed Lusa that the vehicle going in the wrong direction was driven by “a woman of foreign nationality.”
The other injured parties were the occupants of the other accident-affected vehicle, added the GNR source.
The site was attended by a team comprising five vehicles and 12 personnel, including members of the Albufeira Fire Department, GNR, and the A22 concessionaire, as quantified by the authorities.
