Motorcycle crash with "almendrón" leaves one dead in Cotorro

A collision between an old car, known in Cuba as an “almendrón,” and a small-displacement motorcycle caused the death of a young man and serious injuries to his passenger on Tuesday, according to social media reports.

A post from the Facebook group 'Buses & Truck Accidents. For more experience and fewer victims!', he reported on the event that occurred in Cotorro, Havana, and shared images of the accident, in addition to reporting the death of the motorcycle driver.

“Accident in Cotorro leaves a deceased person and his companion in a delicate state of health,” published user Eddy Domínguez, sharing several snapshots of the scene, which some Internet users identified as Bello Palmar, on the Central Highway.

Users identified the victim as a young man named Abelito, a resident of El Cerro. According to a netizen commentingCyberCuba, he was a young man, whom he described as “a good and hard-working boy, who got along very well with everyone.”

“My Abelito, damn, what great pain I feel in my heart. I have it destroyed. I don't believe it. You were so good! Rest in peace, friend,” said user Naivis González in the comments to the publication.

At the moment the official version of what happened is unknown, although some Internet users commented that the accident occurred because "the right of way" had not been respected, but without specifying which driver violated it.

“The guy in the car was the culprit. “It ended the life of a great boy, one of those who no longer exist,” the aforementioned Facebook user responded again. For his part, the person who was traveling as a passenger on the motorcycle is reported to be in serious condition due to the injuries suffered and, apparently, would be the one who had notified friends or family of the death of the driver of the motorcycle with license plate P91773.

At the beginning of October, the presence of a pothole on a highway in Camagüeycaused an accident between two motorcycles, which collided and ended up overturned on the road, without its drivers apparently suffering serious injuries. The event occurred on the Plaza Méndez bridge, in the capital of Camagüey.

On September 29,a woman died after an accident in which a motorcycle and a truck were involved on a highway, also in the province of Camagüey, between Martí and Guáimaro. Although the truck ended up overturned in the ditch and the motorcycle did not have major damage, the passenger of the motorcycle died.

One day before, but in Santiago de Cuba,A motorcyclist died after a tragic accident occurred at the intersection of Paseo de Martí and Avenida Moncada. A witness to the accident stated that the driver of the motorcycle had been the alleged “offender” after trying to pass a truck. For her part, a friend of the victim told CiberCuba that the deceased was José Arrate Mineto, 48 years old and resident on Calvario Street.

Between January and August of this year,Cuba registered 303 deaths in traffic accidents, four more than the number of deaths in the same stage of 2020, according to data from the National Road Safety Commission (CNSV). Specialists point out that "the human factor" would have been responsible for 94.3% of the accidents.