MADRID, Spain.- A traffic accident that occurred this Monday on Loma de Mariana in San Antonio del Sur, Guantánamo province, cost the lives of four people (two men and two women). Another 17 people were injured, some of whom remain in intensive care.
Among the injured were several minors, including a 10-month-old patient in extreme critical code red, who had to undergo surgery for a skull injury, the local media reported. Overcome.
According to the information, the accident occurred when the truck turned off going up the hill. When it went out, it began to roll backwards and with a maneuver by the driver it hit a tamarind tree.
The passenger Uberlandy Fuentes Griñán recounted that when the truck was turned off “they began to yell for no one to get out, but even so some people jumped out of the vehicle.”
Yorleidis Mesón Favier, who was in the middle of the driver’s cab, between the driver and the crusher, specified that they had left Puriales de Caujerí at 3:10 AM with around 30 passengers. Just before I could fully climb Mariana Hill, the truck shut down.
“While the crusher tried to make the motor system react due to an alleged blockage, the vehicle began to roll backwards and so that it would not continue drifting in a straight line, the driver maneuvered against a tamarind tree in an attempt to stop it. Thanks to that, he did not overturn and there was no greater human loss. Although we yelled at the passengers that no one jump out of the vehicle, some did,” Mesón said.
The first help came from residents of Segundo Frente, a nearby town, and injured people who managed to access higher areas with cellular coverage and notified the emergency services. Meanwhile, some light cars transported the most serious.
During 2022 A total of 9,848 traffic accidents occurred in Cuba, which cost the lives of 700 people and left 7,547 injured, according to the annual report of the National Viability Commission. This high number of accidents represents an average of 27 collisions per day.
