Mexico City, Mexico.- the local press confirmed a accident that involved 51 passengers yesterday Saturday in an area known as Recompensa, in the municipality of Bahía Honda in Artemisa.
Preliminary reports indicate that the driver of the vehicle, belonging to the Mariel Special Development Zone, was responsible for the misfortune.
“The vehicle belonging to the Mariel Special Development Zone, where around 50 workers were traveling, overturned the driver, violating article 128, paragraph 4 of Law 109 (Road Safety Code), which states that in the presence of fog or mist , the vehicle should be slowed down or stopped.” This is what Captain Alain Montero Martínez, first instructor of the Crimes against Life section of the MININT Provincial Unit, told El Artemiseño.
All those involved in the incident were transported to the nearby polyclinic. While they decided to transfer to the General Teaching Hospital Comandante Pinares de San Cristóbal, those whose condition required it.
Of the five patients reviewed in Comandante Pinares, only one remains hospitalized to be operated on for a femur fracture.
Despite the fact that the Artemisa authorities acknowledge the poor condition of the road, they assure that the three accidents that have occurred on it so far this year have been the sole responsibility of the drivers.
According to figures from the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), during 2022 they occurred in Cuba 9,848 traffic accidents —at a rate of 27 per day— that cost the lives of 700 people and left 7,547 injured.
The statistics – which belong to the annual report of the National Viability Commission – mark a decrease compared to the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, dozens of accidents are recorded daily in various provinces of the country, in many cases with fatalities.
In Havana alone, 3,300 road accidents occurred last year, with a balance of more than 100 deaths; the majority of fatalities being children and the elderly.
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