This Wednesday afternoon two people died and four others, including an Italian citizen, suffered injuries after the collision of two vehicles at kilometer 288 of the National Highway, in the municipality of Placetas, province of Villa Clara .
The wounded were treated both at the municipal hospital and at the Arnaldo Milián Castro Clinical-Surgical Hospital, said Ondrey Candelario Ozuna, of the Municipal Health Directorate of Placetas, to Telecubanacán.
Multiple images of the accident were shared on Facebook. One of the vehicles involved in the accident was split in half. “Good God, what a great thing, that are the results of irresponsibility, it terrifies me to see these things and they have not just become aware,” said the user Elvira Riverol when she learned of the collision.
Some of the comments point out as a possible cause the speeding of one of the damaged vehicles, which was destined for rental for tourism. This was combined, said the Internet user Luis Felipe Pérez Pérez, with the “deplorable state of the roads.”
Some of the comments point out as a possible cause the speeding of one of the damaged vehicles, which was destined for rental for tourism
Mario Mastrapa Rodriguez added that there are sections of the highway where vehicles pass above the maximum speed allowed, 120 kilometers per hour. “And by the battered central highway, not to mention, they seem flags waving”. For his part, Quintero Yasmany criticized “the lack of a dividing line” on the National Highway.
Figures from the National Road Safety Commission offered in 2021 registered 5,612 accidents, which left 350 dead and 3,700 injured. “The human factor and the irresponsibility of pedestrians and drivers continue to be decisive in their occurrence,” declared the secretary general of the National Road Safety Commission, Reinaldo Becerra Acosta.
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