A public transport unit collided with several vehicles and a motorcycle, this event occurred in the ascending channel of Avenida Las Américas, near the Santa Bárbara sector of the capital of Merida, leaving three people dead, two adults and one minor. age, in addition to several injured, as reported by the Secretary of Security of the State Government, Commissioner General, Johnny Nava Caballero.
He explained that the Encava bus belongs to the Cultura transportation line, which covers the route from the city of Mérida to San Rafael de Mucuchíes and vice versa; The causes of the accident are currently being investigated with signs of mechanical failure (loss of brakes) or excess speed.
He highlighted the immediate response of the security and prevention bodies through the Ven 911 system, “Neighbors of the community made phone calls to 9-1-1 where we made the interconnection immediately, in perfect civic-military-police union. fire and risk, and we activated the emergency care system, with the deployment of eight ambulances to transport the injured to the Autonomous Institute Hospital Universitario de Los Andes, Iahula, and to the High Technology Center (CAT) to carry out imaging studies thanks to the security and prevention policies guided by Governor Jehyson Guzmán.”
