SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A accident The accident that occurred on Thursday morning in Guáimaro, Camagüey, left at least six people injured, after a truck carrying passengers overturned, according to the telecentre Camagüey TV.
The accident occurred when the truck passenger plane, registration P124-260, which was flying the Havana-Santiago de Cuba route, lost control when one of its front tires exploded.
According to the official media, this caused the vehicle to go off the public road. The vehicle was carrying around 30 passengers; six of them were taken to the Armando Enrique Cardoso hospital, with injuries of varying degrees.
Although so far none of the patients is in danger of losing his life due to his injuries, among the injured was a pregnant woman, who was taken to the obstetrics and gynecology area. According to Camagüey TVis stable.
None of the people are in serious condition, confirmed one of the doctors who attended the emergency room. One woman suffered a cervical spine injury and is experiencing moderate pain. She is currently undergoing ultrasounds to rule out other complications.
The injured Cuban woman, who was not identified, will have to be transferred to the Manuel Ascunce Provincial Hospital for further evaluation.
After the accident, the remaining passengers were transported in another vehicle to Santiago de Cuba, their final destination.
At the end of August, a massive accident occurred in the National Highwayon the stretch from Irijoa to Arroyo Blanco, municipality of Palma Soriano, left a balance of nine people injured, two of them in critical condition.
The accident involved a Transtur bus carrying 40 passengers from Havana to Santiago de Cuba and a trailer belonging to the company EMGEF Generación de Energía Eléctrica, which was heading to the municipality of Contramaestre.
According to preliminary information provided by Dr. Miguel Angel Diaz Nunez, director general of Public Health in the province, and cited by Johnson Urrutia, the bus driver, Henry Yanes Diaz, 36 years old and resident of El Cotorro, Havana, was in critical condition and life-threatening. In addition, passenger Ricardo Matos Reyes, 58 years old, from Guantanamo, was reported to be in serious condition, although not life-threatening.
This year, the National Road Safety Commission (CNSV) of Cuba revealed in its 2023 closing report that, although traffic accidents had been reduced by 13% and injuries by 7%, 22 more people died last year than in 2022 due to that cause.
The data were released during the CNSV’s balance meeting, where government authorities and the PCC They attributed the increase in mortality to “the irresponsibility of pedestrians and drivers of motorcycles and mopeds.”
