Two off-duty Italian Carabinieri officers rescued a critically injured man after a car overturned into a saltwater channel in Formentera, Spain, on the evening of August 5. The incident occurred near the La Savina port when a vehicle carrying four young people veered off the road into the Salinas channel.
The officers, stationed in Turin and Savona, were on vacation and witnessed the crash. They pulled a 30-year-old Spanish passenger from the water after he had been thrown from the vehicle and was at risk of drowning. The man suffered exposed fractures and loss of sensation in his lower limbs. The officers cleared his airways and applied pressure to a bleeding head wound before emergency services arrived.
Medical personnel later confirmed that the prompt airway intervention prevented death by drowning. The victim was airlifted to a hospital in Ibiza, where he is now listed as out of danger. The other three passengers escaped serious injury. Spanish National Police and Civil Guard officers expressed gratitude for the Carabinieri's quick action.