Lanzarote Tourist Killed in Playa Blanca
May 31st, 2010 | 
Author: A number of us know a popular Lanzarote forum member Stuartp – who is here right now because he was supposed to be celebrating an impending wedding. Unfortunately the group he was holidaying in Lanzarote with, has been struck with tragedy this weekend.
A member of the group, a policeman who played rugby in the Holme Valley has died in a tragic holiday accident in Playa Blanca. Detective Constable Matthew Dunn, 31, was hit by a car in the resort of Playa Blanca at approximately 1am, Friday and was then taken to the Arrecife Hospital where he later died. Another man who was with them suffered serious injuries. He is not in the police.
Stuart would like us to add the following update:
The lad in hospital (Norman) is doing well and hoping to be flown back by private charter within a week. Both his wife and family of Matt are in town along with officers from west yorkshire police.
A man has been arrested and charged with 5 offences including driving over the limit not stopping at accident and murder.
Both the local and British police have been superb as have friends in the community who have offered to help wherever possible.
Arrecife hospital has been as good as any at home if not better. However while it may not have made a difference for Matt and local ambulance were at the scene within 15 mins, full paramedics had to come from Arrecife and we will be pushing for there to be a paramedic resource in Playa Blanca as 3/4 hour is too long in emergencys like this.
Our most sincere condolances are with Stuart, his group… and the families of the affected.
Elle xx
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Oh jeez… that´s is such sad news. And it´s tragic that the long journey to Arrecife might have contributed to his death.
Although I love driving on the nice empty, uncongested roads here in Lanzarote, the amount of dangerous drivers (tailgating in particular, speeding and other dangerous manouevres without indicating) never cease to make me so angry, constantly making me think “how dare they endanger MY life with their actions?!”.
Back to the tailgating again… do drivers not realise that if I only step on the brakes to avoid running over an animal (or whatever other reason!), and they run into the back of me, that THEY are responsible?
*Sigh* I could rant on and on here. But instead, I just send my heart out to the families & friends affected.
So sad to read about this tourist who died in Playa Blanca road accident. We live 7 miles from the main hospital and the ambulance station in Chichester, West Sussex. Like Playa Blanca our village is possibly 20 minutes drive or maybe 15 with an ambulance and blue lights. To help overcome this there are teams of paramedics that live in the outlying areas but we also have a village First Response. This is a red and yellow car manned 24 hours by trained volunteers who are on the scene before the ambulance. It parks in the middle of the village. The villagers fund raise for this fantastic service and get grants to keep them on the road but this does save lives when your town is isolated. I could get more information if anyone in Playa Blanca wanted it. A town raffle running for several months with a holiday at one of the Sun resorts as the prize, should raise quite a lot of money to get you started. Mainland drug companies might help too. Worth thinking about. Jeanne