A strike picket member in Pontevedra has been discharged from hospital with minor injuries after a car hit him at the O Campiño industrial estate during Wednesday's general strike.
Sources at the Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) trade union said the injured man is a member of the union and was carried for roughly 300 metres on the bonnet of a car driving through the industrial estate in north-western Spain.
According to the union's account of the incident, the vehicle eventually braked and the picket member was able to get off the car.
Sources at the 112 Galicia emergency service said the incident took place at around 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday on Calle Montelouredo, near the recycling centre at the O Campiño estate. The caller who alerted emergency dispatchers reported that a vehicle had dragged a man for several metres.
Hospital treatment and police report in Pontevedra
The picket member suffered bruising to one leg and one hand. He received medical assistance in the emergency department at Montecelo Hospital in Pontevedra.
Sources at the Pontevedra-O Salnés health area confirmed that the man was discharged after being treated at the hospital.
Meanwhile, sources at the central government sub-delegation in Pontevedra said no formal complaint has been filed over what happened, although a police report does exist regarding the incident between a driver and a member of a picket line at the industrial estate.
The O Campiño industrial estate and Comisiones Obreras
Pontevedra is a city in north-western Spain and the capital of the province of the same name in the autonomous community of Galicia. The O Campiño industrial estate is located on the outskirts of the municipality and serves as one of the area's main manufacturing and industrial zones.
Comisiones Obreras is Spain's largest trade union confederation, representing workers across industrial, service and public sectors nationwide. Under Spanish labour law, trade unions taking part in a strike are permitted to deploy information pickets outside workplaces to inform employees about industrial action.
Emergency responses in the region are coordinated through 112 Galicia, the public service that handles police, fire and medical alerts across the four Galician provinces. Montecelo Hospital is part of the public hospital network within the Pontevedra-O Salnés health area of the Galician health service, while the central government sub-delegation in Pontevedra oversees state security forces in the province.
