SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A truck belonging to the Construction Maintenance Company impact This Wednesday afternoon against a tractor belonging to the TABACUBA Company, on the bridge over the Arimao River, at the entrance to Manicaragua, in the municipality of Villa Clara.
According to reports According to the local official press, as a result of the accident, the truck fell into the void and its driver, Yordanis Monteagudo, 33, was seriously injured, with complications and injuries that put his life at risk.
The crash that occurred around 2:00 p.m. left the tractor driver, Diego Herrera, with non-serious and stable injuries, the media revealed. Telecubanacan.
Images published by Cuban state media showed the truck overturned under the bridge and the tractor and its trailer embedded against the railing.
The accident also caused damage to the bridge infrastructure, in seven sections of the railing, which will require the reconstruction of 10 to 12 meters of the structure.
This year, the National Road Safety Commission (CNSV) of Cuba revealed in its 2023 closing report that, although traffic accidents had been reduced by 13% and injuries by 7%, 22 more people died last year than in 2022 due to that cause.
Government authorities and the PCC They attributed the increase in mortality to “the irresponsibility of pedestrians and drivers of motorcycles and mopeds.”
A massive accident occurred on Wednesday morning in the National Highwayon the stretch from Irijoa to Arroyo Blanco, municipality of Palma Soriano, left a balance of nine people injured, two of them in critical condition, according to reported on his Facebook wall Beatriz Johnson Urrutiafirst secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in that province.
The accident involved a Transtur bus carrying 40 passengers from Havana towards Santiago de Cuba and a trailer belonging to the company EMGEF Electric Power Generation, which was heading to the municipality of Contramaestre.
According to preliminary information provided by Dr. Miguel Ángel Díaz Núñez, director general of Public Health in the province, and cited by Johnson Urrutia, the bus driver, Henry Yanes Díaz, 36 years old and resident of El Cotorro, Havana, is in critical condition and in danger of death. In addition, the passenger Ricardo Matos Reyes, 58 years old, from Guantánamo, is reported to be in serious condition, although not in danger of death.
