Hepoor condition of Cuban roads added another accident this Saturday, when a Toyota jeep overturned after falling into a pothole on the National Highway.
Heaccident It occurred at dawn on Saturday, before the Agua de Pasajeros checkpoint, in the province of Cienfuegos, and only material damage to the vehicle was reported, according to apublication on Facebook.
The jeep fell into a hole in the road and suffered a steering failure that caused it to overturn.clarified the driver's son, regarding various comments that speculated about the cause of the accident.
“It was the address afterA hole. Is my dad. He has had his jeep all his life. Nobody knows him except him. These things happen, nobody wants to have an accident. What happens is that it is very easy to speak and draw conclusions without knowing what happened,” Eduardo Escurdia stressed.
Likewise, he reported thatAll occupants of the jeep were fine.: “Nothing happened to them. A scratch and more than a good scare, but that's it," and he thanked several people for their concern for his father and those who were traveling in the vehicle at the time of the accident.
Thecritical road conditions throughout the country have been the cause of many accidents, some of them fatal, in recent years.
Drivers have denounced the precarious state of many of these roads, without the authorities solving the problem that, in addition to putting people's lives at risk, causes material damage to the vehicle fleet.
In 2019, 76% of the more than 71,000 kilometers of roads in Cuba were “regular or in poor condition”, as the government itself recognized. Since then,little or nothing has improved that situation.
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