One day after the fateful shock of a truck into a crowd of people celebrating the start of the employers in the Bastidas community, Las Yayas municipality, in Azua13 of the wounded remained hospitalized.
Six of them receive care in the Taiwan Hospitalof Azuaand seven others are hospitalized in the hospital Alejandro Cabralfrom San Juan de la Maguana.
Among those affected, three people, two women and a man, are in the intensive care unit. Intensive Care of Alejandro Cabral, with a reserved prognosis, he said Free Newspaper the director of the hospitalMelinda Saldívar. She reported that a total of 30 patients were received, after the accident and 23 were treated, evaluated and discharged.
While in the hospital Taiwan, the deputy director of the health center, Elio Beltré, reported that of the six woundedfour will be subjected to surgical interventions in the next few hours.
Survivor died in another accident
Behind him accidentthe agent of the Army of the Dominican Republic, Jhondeiby Geraldo Matoswas seriously injured, however, due to the long wait for the units of the 911a cousin of this one, took his vehicle to transfer it to the hospital from San Juan de la Maguana. On the way, his cousin crashed and died there.. The cousin is admitted to the hospital of Saint John.
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“My son had just turned 21 on the 28th of last month. My son had no problems with anyone, he was loved by the entire town, he had no vices, the only thing was that, as a youth, he liked parties,” he described among others. tears Miguelina Matos to his offspring.
Yelina VidalGeraldo Matos’ wife, was also affected in the accident with a broken leg in two parts, so it receives attention in the hospital Taiwan.
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The six deceased were buried yesterday morning, due to the state in which their bodies.
Desolation in Azua
During the early hours of yesterday Monday, the scenes of pain multiplied in the communities of Las Yayas, Villalpando, Magueyal and Bastidas, where most of those affected reside in the accident.
The mayor of Villalpando, Heriberto Rossó, was moved and described the event as a tragedy personal, because most of the victims grew up with him. Rossó does not blame anyone for what happened. “I do not blame the driverI don’t blame them, because sometimes you like young He does things that are out of the ordinary and one doesn’t see it that way,” he said.
Angel Encarnación Bautista, the driver of the truck that hit the crowd, remains in the General Directorate of Traffic Safety and Land Transportation (Digesett) of Azua.
Cherny Pujols, who is in charge of traffic accident procedures in that province, said that they are waiting for the Public Prosecutor’s Office to proceed against him.
“That is now the responsibility of the Public Prosecutor’s Office because they are the ones who follow up on the invitation,” Pujols said.
The accident occurred just after 1:00 a.m. A video shows the moment when the truck, which was loaded with avocados, ran over dozens of people in the dark. The vehicle was traveling at high speed.
The driver fled the scene but later turned himself in to authorities.
