Havana/A total of 49 people were injured, four of them serious, in an accident early this Monday in Ranchuelo, Villa Clara. The incident occurred on the road to Esperanza, two kilometers from the Popular Council La Esperanza, and in it a Yutong bus, a target bus and a horsy cart were involved.
According to The official press explainedwith Fuente in Heriberto López, head of the Provincial Transit Unit, the bus was preparing to pick up Pharmacuba workers in Esperanza, when he crashed into the bus of the Ranchuelo base, which made the journey from San Juan to Santa Clara.
The Provincial Health Directorate It informs that among the injured, 40 are adults and 9 are minors, five of them children. Two adults who are in “critical” state are being surgically intervened at the Arnaldo Milián Castro de Santa Clara hospital, one for an open thorax fracture and the other with a depressed skull fracture.
Two other “serious”, the authorities indicate, are also in the operations hall
Two other “serious”, indicate the authorities, are also in the operating hall, one, also adult, with “pelvis and hip luxofracture and open fracture of warm” and another, a minor teenager, with skull trauma.
The rest are reported as “polycontuse and minor injuries.” The five children receive attention at the José Luis Miranda Pediatric Hospital, in the Villaclareña capital.
According to a note from the Cuban news agency, the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party, Susley Morfa González, and the governor of Villa Clara, Milaxy Yanet Sánchez Armas, moved to the place.
The Interior Ministry, the official note ends, investigates the causes of the accident, although reports on social networks They ensure that the accident occurred when the Diana vehicle (the “Guagua de San Juan”) collided with the Yutong (the “Guagua de los Medicaciones”) for avoiding a horsepower. It was still at night at the time of the incident, so it is likely that bad visibility would influence.
The use of carts on the island has proliferated in recent years due to chronic fuel shortage, and not rarely have been involved in this type of accident. Last February, the clash of a car with one of those animal traction vehicles On the Central Highwayin the blind of Ávila, he left two dead and a serious injury.
A few days ago, in an interview with Cubadebate, Sandra Loureiro RodríguezGeneral Director of the National Road Center of the Ministry of Transportation, rejected that the poor state of the roads had to do in traffic accidents, although she recognized the great deterioration suffered by the country’s paths.
“The most frequent factors are the lack of attention when driving and the consumption of alcoholic beverages. At the close of the first semester, only 8% of the registered accidents were attributable directly to the technical state of the roads,” says Loureiro in the conversation, which begins by reiterating that only 29% of the Cuban roads are in good condition. The rest is divided by 31% qualified as “regular” and 40%, directly “bad.”
