An traffic accident The event that occurred this Saturday afternoon in eastern Cuba left a balance of 12 injured, two of them in serious condition, according to official sources.
The incident took place around 7:30 pm in the area of Castillito, the municipality of Mayarí, in the eastern province of Holguín, when a rental car for tourists hit an animal-drawn car carrying 11 people.
According to one note published on the website of the municipal government of Mayaríto the Pediatric Hospital Octavio Concepción y de la Pedraja, in the city of Holguina three-year-old minor was sent in a very serious condition, while another seriously injured person was taken to the Vladimir Ilich Lenin General Teaching Hospital, also in the provincial capital.
Meanwhile, Elsa Idalmis Aguilar, head of the nursing corps at the Mártires de Mayarí hospital, commented that among those injured in the accident were four other minors, aged between 9 months and 15 years, according to information issued by local media. .
In the case of the child reported as very serious, the specialist stated that he arrived in a critical condition at the center and had to perform assisted ventilation and emergency surgery, with the team of surgeons of that institution, a fact that ensured the parameters that allowed the transfer. satisfying.
The disclosed note specifies that six other adults were also injured, including the driver of the animal-drawn car, who underwent surgery by orthopedic specialists.
The head of nursing at the Mayarican hospital added that all the patients were under observation. However, some independent reports already spoke of a fatality due to the event, without this having been confirmed by official means so far.
Preliminary investigations show that the rental car came from Santiago de Cuba and the driver was leaving the area known as Vuelta Larga, when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with the car.
The note released by Radius Angle indicates that the police experts continued the investigations to clarify the reasons for the event that occurred in one of the five Holguin municipalities with the highest incidence of traffic accidents in the first quarter of 2022, according to a publication from the local newspaper Now.
This text underlines that in that period unfavorable indicators were reflected in the accident rate, with respect to the same stage of 2021, since 163 accidents occurred, 32 more than last year in the same period; 18 deceased (+3) and 139 injured (+66), according to the data provided to that medium by Manuel Leyva, secretary of the Provincial Road Safety Commission in Holguín.
According to recent statistics, in the first three months of this year, animal traction means were involved in 20 accidents that occurred in Holguín, which left one dead and 17 injured.
