A COUPLE have been tragically killed after a car smashed into them outside a wine cellar in the popular Canary Islands.
Emergency services were called to reports of the fatal crash at around 7pm on Sunday outside rural winery La Tienda del Vino in La Gomera.
The island of La Gomera in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the Canary Islands
The crash where the couple were sitting
Cops said the two individuals were sat on a bench chatting when a car careered off the road and devastatingly ploughed into them.
Both the man and the woman were killed instantly as there was “nothing they could have done to get out of the way,” police added.
The pair were sitting a winery visited by thousands of Brits every year and which features in the island’s must-see activities.
The male victim is believed to be the owner of the winery, while the woman was a 59-year-old friend.
Emergency services rushed the driver, a San Sebastián de La Gomera local, to the hospital where they were treated for a serious hip injury.
A female passenger was also left with serious injuries and air lifted to a hospital in Tenerife.