An accident left at least 62 injured, including three children, this Friday morning when a bus carrying workers from the Ambrioso Grillo Provincial Clinical Surgical Hospital and a van with passengers hit the El Cobre highway, in Santiago de Cuba. .
None of the injured “is in danger to life at this time”, said at noon this Friday to the official press a representative of the Saturnino Lora hospital where the injured were transferred. “We have two patients reported as serious and five with traumatic brain injuries that are being treated,” added the specialist. The rest of the injured have minor fractures and are under observation.
Instead, there was a fatality in another accident that occurred on Wednesday also in the east of the country. A truck from the Education sector that was transporting rice, flour and sugar overturned on the Muni hill, in the municipality of Yateras, Guantánamo, leaving one person dead and two injured. official media report.
Erileisis Romero Peña, president of the National Association of Small Farmers of Yateras, died in the accident, who got into the vehicle at some point on the way between the provincial capital and that mountainous municipality, the Facebook page said. Michael News by the Guantanamo official journalist Miguel Reyes Mendoza.
The publication also indicated that the injured remained “stable without danger to life.” In the last few days it has been raining in Yateras “which makes traffic in those mountains difficult.”
Official figures indicate that there were 589 deaths from traffic accidents in 2021, an increase of 24% over the previous year
Last Monday, a young woman identified as Rocío Ortega Morón died and two other people were reported in serious condition after the Hyundai I10 car in which they were traveling crashed into a tree on Conill Street, in Nuevo Vedado, Havana.
According to reports from several users on social networks, the fatal victim was the mother of a three-year-old girl. Her husband and father of her minor, Luis Daniel Aragón, and the young Melissa Montano, were identified as the injured.
The National Road Safety Commission has indicated in official publications that the main causes of traffic accidents in Cuba are the driver’s inattention, failure to comply with the right of way and speeding. The poor condition of the roads and the aging vehicle fleet also have an influence.
Added to this are the poor signage on the streets and the lack of lighting, as well as the lack of driver education.
Official figures indicate that there were 589 deaths from traffic accidents in 2021, an increase of 24% over the previous year. This year, until June, f 346 people died in 4,871 accidents, which also left 3,565 injured.
The municipalities that report the highest number of accidents are the capital municipalities of Plaza de la Revolución (49) and Playa (37); Habana del Este (30) and La Lisa (25), in the province of Havana, in addition to Holguín (41), Santiago de Cuba (39) and Santa Clara (24).
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