Four dead and 28 injured is the balance of a new massive accident, which occurred this Monday at kilometer 4 of the Guantánamo-Havana highway. All of them were passengers of a Transtur bus of the Yutong brand that overturned around one in the afternoon.
As confirmed the provincial pressthe vehicle was transporting teachers from Guantanamo who work in the capital and their families, 32 people in total.
Among the injured there are four seriously ill, all of whom underwent surgery at the Doctor Agostinho Neto hospital in Guantanamo. There are 24 other people under observation, including two minors, he says. Overcome.
The names of the deceased have not been made public, but witnesses assured the newspaper that there were no other cars involved in the accident.
The sinister reminds another happened two years agowhen the bus in which teachers were also traveling, from Havana to Mayabeque, left the highway in Güines, and 10 of the passengers lost their lives.
The accident is reminiscent of another that occurred two years ago, when the bus in which teachers were also traveling, from Havana to Mayabeque, left the road in Güines, and 10 of them lost their lives.
Traffic accidents have skyrocketed this year-end on the Island. This Sunday, the truck rollover on the highway access bridge to the popular council of Herradura, in the province of Pinar del Río, caused 11 injuries. Of them, according to the newspaper Guerrilla, three are in critical condition and with assisted ventilation, and the rest – including a girl – under observation.
Last Wednesday, five people died and 42 suffered injuries in another massive accident that occurred in the municipality of Los Arabos, Matanzas.
The day before, in the tourist corridor towards Cayo Cocoin Morón, Ciego de Ávila, when a Yutong bus rammed a Lada brand vehicle, an impact that caused the immediate death of a woman.
On the outskirts of the city of Matanzas there was also a spectacular accident last Monday, after a truck lost its brakes and collided with a vehicle in a curve known as La Herradura, on the road to Cidra. Two were killed and several injured in the accident.
That same Monday, in a collision between a car and a motorcycle on the highway that connects Guantánamo and Baracoa, a woman and a man died.
During Christmas and the end of the year festivities, road transfers frequently increase, which, together with the consumption of alcohol at this time, the rush to reach the destination and the overload of passengers, contributes to the occurrence of more accidents in the ways.
A recent report from the National Highway Commission (CNA) stated that between January and October 2022, 566 people died and 6,175 were injured in Cuba due to 8,187 traffic accidents. At the end of October, the indicators increased compared to the three previous years.
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