Bus leaves the road after one of its tires explodes in Havana

The explosion of one of the front tires of a bus from the Havana Provincial Transportation Company (EPTH) caused it to leave the road. Fortunately, the accident did not result in loss of life.

“About 10 minutes ago. Car 8455 in Alturas de Boca Ciega. The front tire of the car burst. Thank God there was no need to regret [loss of] human lives,” reported a user in the groupFacebook ‘Bus Drivers Forever’.

At the time of writing this note, neither the authorities nor the Cuban official press echo what happened.

The shortage of spare parts, the poor condition of Cuban roads and the lack of maintenance on vehicles belonging to state companies are among the causes of the majority of accidents suffered by public means of transportation.

“Unfortunate accident. Luckily the driver and passengers did not suffer major injuries. If that happens on the bridge, the story would be different," commented a user in the publication, showing that chance intervened in the most favorable way, since if it had happened while crossing a bridge, the exit from the road would have been cause of a tragedy.

Others referred to problems with the maintenance of the EPTH buses. “The spring leaves have to be put in new ones. These welds will bring consequences and loss of human life. Take measures, they are on time.”

“I keep asking myself: Are state and private transportation no longer inspected or reviewed before going out on the street? There are accidents that we can avoid,” said another user.

The day before, a garbage collection truck belonging to the provincial directorate of Communal Services of Havanasuffered an accident and ended up hitting a bridge, causing considerable damage to the vehicle cabin.

Users pointed to a failure in the truck's steering as a possible cause of the accident. The alleged lack of maintenance of the vehicle would have caused the accident and the injuries suffered by the two occupants of the truck, who had to be taken to the hospital.

Recently,A public transport bus crashed into a house in the Havana municipality of San Miguel del Padrón, with no victims reported.

The incident occurred on Friday on Calzada de Güines, in front of the offices of the Union of Young Communists of the aforementioned Havana municipality, and hit a house, destroying a wall.

The accident was reminiscent of one that occurred last July, whenAnother bus lost its brakes and crashed into a house in the Monterrey neighborhood, on the San Miguel del Padrón road.

In mid-January,an accident involving an interprovincial transport bus, of the well-known Yutong, which covered the Havana-Moa route, took place at kilometer 190 of the National Highway, leaving no people dead, but several injured.

Last September,An EPTH bus overturned in the Cuban capital, forcing six passengers to receive hospital care for various traumas and injuries.

“The EPTH announces that at 9:18 pm this Friday, September 1, an unfortunate accident occurred on the Campo Florido highway, when bus 8429, belonging to the Guanabo Terminal, overturned,” the company indicated on its social networks. .

The vehicle, which was traveling along Route A64, ended up overturned off the road for reasons that were being investigated, according to the EPTH. However, the results of the investigation were never released by the state company.

Four fatalities and more than 40 injured left by a bus accident that occurred last June. The accident occurred at kilometer 10 of the Havana-Melena highway when the Yutong 610 bus, belonging to the National Bus Company (EON), overturned.

A mechanical fault was the cause of the accident. "The massive accident, which occurred in the vicinity of the Managua highway, Arroyo Naranjo municipality, was caused by a malfunction in the steering system of the Yutong vehicle, overturning with passengers mostly from the Isle of Youth," the note stated. published by the authorities.