He Emergency Operations Center (COE) reported nine deaths in 42 hours during the holidays New Year’s Eve As part of the second phase of the Consciousness for Life operationwhich began on Tuesday, December 30, at two in the afternoonand covered Wednesday, December 31 and yesterday, Thursday, January 1, until six in the afternoon.
He broadcast newsletter with the new deaths corresponds to the cases that occurred among the two in the afternoon on Tuesday and six in the morning from yesterday, Thursday.
During the first stage of the operation, which included the days 23, 24 and 25 December 2025, were computed 11 deathsbringing the total to 20 that occurred during the Christmas and Christmas festivities. end of year.
He COE will present today, Friday, its last bulletin, to which the events that occurred yesterday will be added, from 6:00 in the morning until six in the afternoonwhen his prevention day concluded.
If you take into account that the number of deaths in 2024 was 42, a decrease could be expected in the period 2025-2026.
A common cause
The traffic accidents were the common cause of the 20 deaths reported.
In the first phase There were 118 of the operation and in the second, so far, there are 79, raising the number to 197.
Of the nine people who lost their lives during the festivities of New Year’s Eve six were victims of road accidents that occurred during the yesterday morningfirst of January.
Five tragedies involved motorcyclesthree light vehicles and one of the victims was run over.
During the first hours of 2026 they died José Eliseo Tavárez and Francisco Alberto Rodríguez Reyes in the Duarte Highwaythe first due to being run over and the second due to an accident motorcycle.
Welcome Ramirez Linares lost his life in Jacobo Majluta Avenue in a light vehicle; Quenry Roal had an accident on Frank Grullón Avenue in a motorcycleand Katherin Francisco Foucheu Yojeir and Jiménez Francisco died on the North Ring Road (Santiago) in a light vehicle.
On December 31, only the death of Yamilet Vargas Santanawho was moving in a motorcycle on Rosario Street, in the Espaillat province.
Also in a collision motorcyclethe Haitian expired Senile Hedgehogin the Duarte Highwayon December 30.
In addition, 145 alcohol poisonings and 30 food poisonings occurred, no fatalities for these reasons.
He National Health Service (SNS) assisted 554 people within the Christmas operation and the 911 System assisted 321, according to the Directorate of Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care Services (DAEH).
Fines and violations
The General Directorate of Transit and Land Transportation (Digesett) carried out 10,003 audits for various offenses law 63-17among which stand out 3,332 violations to motorcyclists for traveling without a protective helmet.
Some 1,121 drivers were driving without a license or had it expired, 756 violated the red light, 738 had expired insurance, 394 did not use their seat belt and 370 did not have lights.
1,065 were detained motorcycles160 light vehicles and 241 heavy vehicles for traveling without permission.
He National Transit Institute and Land Transportation (Intrant) reported that it visited nine routes, terminals or stops, where visual vehicle technical inspections were carried out on 2,810 units of public transport of passengers.
During the early morning of the first day of the year, the cases of patients due to traffic accidents and fights increased in the trauma hospitals, Doctor Darío Contreras and Ney Arias Lora. Sources from both health centers said that they could not offer statistics on the accidents reported since the beginning of 2026 because it was a power of the Emergency Operations Center, however, Diario Libre spoke with some of the relatives of patients who reported the increase in arriving cases. In the Ney Arias Lora emergency area, at least four Dicrim vehicles and several Police patrols were seen entering and leaving the area where patients are received.
