The driver of the bus that overturned with 51 tourists on board last Wednesday on the Bulevar Turístico del Este, in Bávaro, La Altagracia province, Franklin Nin Pérez, 47, was driving under the influence of cocaine, according to the accusatory file of the Public ministry.
The accusing body affirms that it is based on the analyzes presented by the IMG Hospital, which confirmed that the driver Nin Pérez tested positive for this substance.
“A test and/or analysis of cocaine, by Mr. Franklin Nin Pérez, carried out by the IMG Hospital medical center, yielding a positive result,” says the document that details 16 tests against the accused in which the Public ministry request a year of preventive detention.
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According to the Public Ministry, Franklin Nin Pérez drove “without caution, carelessly, recklessly, recklessly and recklessly.” They consider that he was speeding and that when he turned right he did not slow down.
The Public Ministry requests that, given the magnitude of the accident, which left three women dead (Valeria Victoria Brovelli, Valeria Paola Medina and Carla Rodríguez) and 46 injured, that the case be declared complex and that a year of preventive detention be imposed. “That the coercive measure established in article 226, number 7, of the Criminal Procedure Code, be applied to citizen Franklin Nin Pérez, consisting of preventive detention, for a period of twelve months, for violation of articles 220, 231 -1, 235-1, 303-3-4-5 and 304-4”, adds the accusatory file.
In addition, they request before the Court that the provisional seizure of the vehicle, type bus, Volkswagen brand, year 2017, be ordered, which was driven by the accused at the time of the event.
The Permanent Attention Office of the municipality of Higüey postponed this Saturday the hearing against the driver Nin Pérez for next Wednesday, October 12 at 10:00 am
The tourist of Chilean nationality, Dominique Esperanza Dreckmann, who survived the accident, denied the preliminary report of the Dominican authorities in a media outlet in her country, assuring that the driver had an accident because he was speeding and not because he was performing a maneuver to avoid impact with a truck.
While the patients who remained admitted to three medical centers in the province of La Altagracia remained stable until yesterday, three foreign tourists died after the accident. After the bus overturned, the tourists Valeria Victoria, Brovelli, Valeria Rodríguez Dionicio and Karla Rodríguez Dionicio died, while the injured are stable at the Hospiten clinic, at the Punta Cana Medical Center, and at IMG.
COE takes measurement at intersection
The Emergency Operations Center (COE) assured that according to the preliminary report, the bus driver lost control while trying to avoid hitting a car and a truck, and for this reason he left the road and overturned. He explained that they had a series of measures at the Bávaro-Punta Cana crossing to prevent other road accidents from occurring in the future.
