Of the 22 injured left this Monday by the accident of a private truck in the municipality of Yateras, Guantánamo province, a person with a “simple skull fracture” still remains hospitalized, according to reported in a post the provincial newspaper overcome.
On Monday afternoon, the overturning of a vehicle was reported in the vicinity of the town of Boquerón. The driver Jorge Pérez Preval said that the accident was due to the “breakage of a transmission bar” of the truck with license plate P 119529 and that he had to maneuver until he overturned to “avoid worse consequences.”
The staff of the Intensive Medical Emergency Service provided assistance to the victims and 17 injured were transferred to the Dr. Agostinho Neto Teaching Hospital, while a seven-year-old girl was treated at the Pedro A. Pérez Pediatric Hospital.
The driver Jorge Pérez Preval said that the accident was due to the “breakage of a transmission bar” of the truck
Three of the injured were reported by staff of the Dr. Agostinho Neto Teaching Hospital with a red code due to the “cranial trauma” they presented at the time of their admission. Two of them evolved favorably and were discharged. No further details were provided for the patient still under observation. And on the rest of the injured, official media reported that they had “ultrasound and blood tests.”
This accident was registered a day after images were published on social networks about the overturning of a Transgaviota bus in the Sibanicú municipality, Camagüey province. “One dead and some minor injuries”, left the accident of the bus claimed a user On twitter. “All because of one dredge that almost shocked them. He made them fall and tip over and then he fled. “
Last Sunday, the death of a woman was reported in an accident on 4th and 8th Street, on the National Highway, in the Guanabacoa municipality, in Havana.
At the beginning of November, the general secretary of the National Road Safety Commission, Reinaldo Becerra, announced that from January to September, in “51% of traffic accidents there is a victim.” The statistic, he said, “reaches 350 deaths and 3,700 injured.” According to official figures, up to January 1 there were 5,612 accidents registered.
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