After regretting what happened in the car accident in Punta Cana, the executive director of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant), Hugo Berasreported yesterday ready plans and structure to organize and supervise the tourist transport corridors of that and other poles of the country.
He announced that next week he will meet in Punta Cana with the tourism sector that Higüey involves, and that later he will go to other poles such as Puerto Plata and Samanato raise the needs of the tourist transport sector in these provinces.
“Precisely we had a meeting in recent days with the authorities of the tourism sector to see the whole project, what is the organization of tourist transport, to control and supervise it,” said Beras.
He explained that the entire plan for tourist transportation in Punta Cana and Higüey was structured, and that even the training of the Intrant technical team had been made last Monday to organize this topic.
Referring to the traffic of cargo trucks through the National District, the official announced that he will inaugurate the first Cargo Monitoring and Control Center, which works with technology to control and supervise traffic in this demarcation, sanction according to establishes the law 63-17.
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Until now and for the beginning of the implementation of the monitoring center, only 8 thousand trucks have been registered, he explained.
Beras said that later more heavy vehicles will be incorporated, while, the rest of the devices that are not in the system, Intrant will not authorize the load permit until its GPS is replicated in the system.
He announced that this same monitoring system will be replicated to tourist transport, and that the tourist transport vehicle that travels at excessive speed will be controlled through the monitoring center, which endangers the company’s operating permit.
At least two female tourists they lost their lives in the traffic accident occurred on Wednesday morning in Bávaro, La Altagracia province, while more than 40 were injured, some seriously.
The deceased are Carla Rodriguez and Valeria Victoriaof Peruvian and Argentine nationality respectively, who were traveling with their husbands.
At first, the version of the bus driver was that he had lost control to avoid hitting other vehicles at the Domingo Maíz intersection, which caused the vehicle to overturn. However, Chilean Dominique Dreckman, who was part of the group of tourists, said that the accident occurred because the driver was driving at high speed and not because he was avoiding other vehicles.
Yesterday the authorities questioned Franklin Nin Perez driver of the Wolskwagen bus, plate I-079119 of the Serum Service Rus Transport company, which slipped yesterday on the Eastern Tourist Boulevard, killing three foreign tourists and 21 were injured.
Pérez Nin was uninjured in the accident.
