Punta Cana. ADOTRATUR, made up of some thirty-five businessmen, has expressed through a statement sent to the press its condolences to relatives of the deceased and injured in the accident that occurred last Thursday, October 6, and in turn ask the authorities and the press to follow up to the subject attached to rigor and justice.
Tourist transport companies emphasize that they work under strict quality and safety controls, they are periodically inspected by the Institute of Transit and Land Transport, INTRANT, which evaluates each unit before the renewal of permits that is carried out each year.
Enmanuel David, president of the entity, subscribed that as businessmen and as an institution they are respectful of the authorities and the government, and that at the same time they request to respect the legal process with equal consideration, he asked “to avoid contaminating the process with politics or witch hunts ».
In their written note they request transparency in the process and make themselves available to the authorities to understand the confusing accident, «We would like to have access to the security cameras. We make ourselves available to the authorities to collaborate with the process with our experience.” He expressed her.
“We are not going to carry out any type of transport stoppage and we are not going to blackmail the justice system.” He categorically indicated the tourist transport association. They also say that they will continue to preserve tourism and are committed to improving the quality of the services it offers every day, as it has been until now. The tourist transporters asked to take into account that only so far this year, Adotratur has mobilized four million five hundred thousand tourists, and has a fleet of some 1,800 transport vehicles without any fatality, «with the exception of the sad accident that we all regret ». For what they ask the press, the authorities and the country to take into account when trying to avoid a sector that is exhibited as the safest, most modern and comfortable transportation system in the Caribbean and Central American region.
The transport business assures that the tires of the accident bus were not worn out or had expired as they have wanted to report, since the buses registered in said association are rigorously evaluated, and also reveal that the GPS of the company that owns the bus recorded the last speed of 91 kilometers per hour and that it was not an old bus either since the year of manufacture of the same is 2017 with 120,000 kms. of life.
ADOTRATUR also asked the Ministry of Public Works and the President of the Republic to adapt the Tourist Boulevard to raise it to the quality and safety standards demanded by an area that contributes so much to the state.
