Havana/Around 11:00 am on Tuesday, a private truck from Santiago de Cuba, rushed from the elevated ones in the Santa Rita area, in the municipality of Jiguaní, province of Granma, after the driver lost control of the vehicle, according to a Jiguani radio information.
“The preliminary cause of the accident is that the truck transmission bar fell,” says a note from the official medium. A total of 22 people were injured in the incident. The injured receive attention from the Edor de los Reyes Polyclinic, in Jiguaní, and in the Polyclinic David Moreno, of Santa Rita.
Due to the seriousness of their injuries, seven of the injured were transferred to the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Provincial Hospital in Bayamo. So far, the health status of the injured has not been specified.
The authorities clarified that the vehicle did not transport passengers, but had been rented by self -employed workers (TCP) that were directed from Santiago de Cuba to the Niquero coastal municipality to participate in local festivities.
“The preliminary cause of the accident is that the truck transmission bar fell”
Recently, A massive accidentoccurred on September 22, left a balance of 49 people injured, four of them serious, 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.
Deaths due to this type of accidents increased by 18% in Cuba (a total of 173) in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period of 2024, according to official data. The deaths recorded a rebound despite the number of accidents (1,738) between January and March was lower than the first quarter of the previous year (1,882).
By provinces, the accidents increased in Villa Clara, Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila and Camagüey, as well as in Granma and Las Tunas. Likewise, deaths from this cause grew in Havana, blind from Ávila, Camagüey, Villa Clara, Cienfuegos, Granma and Santiago de Cuba.
Rodríguez Dávila considered that this information is “useful for more detailed analysis”, in order to “adopt the necessary measures.”
However, a few days ago in an interview with CubadebateSandra Loureiro Rodríguez, general director of the National Road Center of the Ministry of Transportation, rejected that The poor state of the roads They had to do in traffic accidents, although it 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.”
