The Copsa bus accident that left as a balance a dead girl under 15 years of age and several seriously injured had the help from several people who traveled along the Interbalnearia route. Many of them stopped their vehicles and helped those who were inside the vehicle.
Mateo Peña, a driver who was circulating in the area in the moments after the accident, told details of the impact.
“We were going in the opposite direction, we saw that there were a lot of cars stopped with people around“he counted.
At first it was the drivers of the cars themselves who saw the incident and who tried to help the victims. “The people were taking the people out of the inside”counted.
Mateo, who helped transfer the medical tools from the ambulances to the place where the bus was, told how people helped to save the victims. “People broke the windows of the bus so that the passengers could get out,” said. Then the firefighters collaborated in that task.
When he arrived, there were eight people left inside the bus.
The witness, who was traveling by car with his father, said that a person who was in the place tried to revive the minor who finally died. “When the emergency came, they also gave him resuscitation,” he said.
In addition, Mateo said that the driver was one of those who experienced the worst situation. “He got caught”he assured. Rescuers had to do special maneuvers to get it out.
Copsa bus accident: what happened
The bus traveled from west to east with 34 passengers. Upon reaching that kilometer, for reasons that are trying to be clarified, misled, crossed the path and overturned in a ravine. The vehicle was left in a lateral position.
The vehicle was traveling from Montevideo to Punta del Este without guard service. Javier Cardoso, general manager of Copsa, said that the driver He is hospitalized in the Mautone and it is still unknown what caused him to mislead and overturn a ravine.
