SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A driver from Matanzas passed away this Thursday after his car hit a retaining wall on the central highway towards the Perico municipality and caught fire.
As reported by the Provincial Government of Popular Power in Facebookthe accident took place around 5:30 pm on Thursday, October 3, on the central highway towards Perico, at the exit of the Sergio González town (known as Tinguaro).
The vehicle collided with a side retaining wall of the road and subsequently caught fire. The driver, the only occupant of the car, died at the scene.
According to the government note, security teams went to the site emergencyincluding members of the Ministry of the Interior, the National Revolutionary Police, experts and the Fire Department, who quickly moved to the site to control the situation.
So far no further details have been offered and the exact causes of the accident are unknown. Investigations are ongoing to clarify the details of the incident.
Although the identity and victim It was not revealed in the note, the forum members commented that it was a young boy.
“He was a young boy, the nephew of a friend of mine,” wrote one Internet user. “How sad that child is so young, my condolences to his family.”
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 this cause.
Government authorities and PCC They attributed the increase in mortality to “the irresponsibility of pedestrians and motorcycle and moped drivers.”
At the end of August, a truck belonging to the Construction Maintenance Company impact against a tractor from the TABACUBA Company, on the bridge over the Arimao River, at the entrance to Manicaragua, municipality of Villa Clara.
According to reports According to the local official press, as a result of the accident, the truck plunged into the void and its driver, Yordanis Monteagudo, 33, was seriously injured, with complications and injuries that put his life at risk.
The accident also caused damage to the bridge infrastructure, in seven sections of the railing, which will involve the reconstruction of 10 to 12 meters of the structure.
