Azores Island Reports First Traffic Accident
A farm worker was hospitalized here Friday with a broken leg after the first road accident on a tiny Azores island that boasts only two cars and a dozen tractors.
A hospital spokesman on Terceira, one of the main islands of the Portuguese mid-Atlantic archipelago, said that Joao Mendes, 32, was recovering after being flown here from Corvo.
“He suffered a broken leg on Monday when run over by a municipal tractor on the island’s only road,” the spokesman said, confirming that it was the first such accident on Corvo, by far the smallest Azores island, with only 300 inhabitants.
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