Tractor cart loaded with coal knocks down pole and leaves the town of Las Tunas without electricity

A tractor pulling a cart loaded with bags of coal suffered a spectacular accident that caused an electricity pole to fall in Amancio, Las Tunas, leaving its inhabitants without electricity for hours this Sunday.

“Tractor got rid of the Viking,” reported a Cuban Internet user in the group ofFacebook ‘Bus & Truck Accidents. For more experience and fewer victims!' In his publication, the author shared an image of the incident.

In the photograph you can see a trailer loaded with bags of coal with registration number B047749 that has left the ditch, knocking down an electricity pole.

In the comments, several users criticized the poor condition of the road and the lack of safety and adequate mechanisms for trailer hitching.

“These carts are pinned… and they put pins on the tractors without pins. Therein lies the lack of responsibility of the tractor driver. Thank goodness the pole stopped it, it could have caused an accident with a bus or a car and killed people,” said one commentator.

Others agreed to point out the poor state of the roads in the town of Amancio, where in November 2021, the Mipyme Carbón Vegetal Marabú Amancio, a producer of charcoal from marabou, was established with approval from the Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP). , and the first company of this type in Las Tunas.

According toNewspaper 26, the official organ of the Communist Party in the province, “among the exportable items of the municipality of Amancio, the production of charcoal stands out.”

A note ofTime21 In March 2021, it recognized the work of ARDO, a Vegetable Charcoal Production Company in Las Tunas that was nourished by the contributions of the Jobabo, Amancio and Manzanillo Base Business Units (UEB), the largest producers.

The media highlighted that ARDO wasthe main entity generating foreign currency income of the Flora and Fauna Business Group, “founded and led by the Commander of the RevolutionGuillermo García Frias”.

In recognition, the general director of the Marketing, Importing and Exporting Company Alcona S.A,Belkis Medina Urra, gave them a diploma and declared that the relations between ARDO and his company were “very fruitful.”

According to the directive, in addition to exporting coal, Alcona imported the inputs that the entity needed to sustain its productions, "which include bags, chainsaws and other resources."

At the time of writing this note, it is unknown if the tractor that crashed in Amancio belongs to or is linked to the activity of these companies of the Flora and Fauna Business Group. Neither authorities nor official media have commented on an event that Cuban Internet users attribute to the lack of supplies and "other resources" for work of this nature.

At the end of March,a collision between a tractor and a car On the National Highway he left the singular image of the agricultural vehicle split in the middle on the road.

In July 2022,A tractor pulling a cart ended up in the waters of the Saltadero River after falling from a road in the municipality of Cabaiguán, in the province of Sancti Spíritus.

In April of that year,a tractor fell into a huge hole opened in a street in Trinidad, province of Sancti Spíritus, causing a surreal image that, fortunately, did not end in major misfortune for the driver of the vehicle.