Two dead in an accident in the blind of Ávila due to the lack of visibility caused by cane burning

Havana/The Cubans Nivaldo Manuel Buchillón Jiménez, 72, and Eglys Castillo Rodríguez, 45, died on Wednesday after a traffic accident on the road to Punta Alegre, in Ciego de Ávila. According to reports, four other people were injured.

As published on social networks The official journalist Leonel Iparraguirre Gonzálezthe vehicle suffered an accident trying to avoid crash with a truck that traveled in the opposite direction of the road. As he explained, the road had little visibility due to the smoke that gave off a cane field that burned to the side of the road.

In the place of the incident Buchillón died, while Castillo died in the transfer to a hospital. The reporter also pointed out that the injured were transferred to the Julio Castillo Polyclinic of the municipality of Chambas, where they received immediate medical assistance and from there they were taken to the hospitals of Morón and Ciego de Ávila.

Elier Varela Torres (31 years) presents burns and a skull fracture, Eusebio Rey Boloy (32) was reported with polytrauma, José Pérez Cardozo (59) and Carlos Álvarez González (58) have minor injuries, he added.

On your Facebook profileThe scissors, said that the driver of the truck “was surgically intervened and is reported as a critic”; In addition, two other people suffered serious injuries.

In 2024 Cuba registered a total of 7,507 traffic accidents, 12% less than those reported in 2023 (8,556). Deaths (634) also decreased by 13% and injured people were 6,613, 4% less. The year was, it is worth adding, a period weighed by little mobility due to the lack of fuel.

Among the main causes of the accident in the Cuban roads, the authorities have cited the lack of attention to the control of the vehicle – in 30% of the cases – not to grant the right of road (29.9%), the speeding, the driving under the effect of alcoholic beverages and the technical damage of the vehicles.

The recklessness of the drivers is among the main causes of claims, the Minister of Transportation presented last January, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila. “It is often said that there is no road courtesy in Cuba, but when the consequences are fatal, drivers’ education cannot be optional, especially when it comes to professionals.”