Truck with workers leaves the road in Holguín

A truck carrying construction workers left the road in the Banes municipality, Holguín,leaving a preliminary balance of 15 injured, three of whom were reported seriously injured.

The accident occurred in the early hours of this Wednesday in the Retrete Abajo area when the truck “went off its path in an area with a steep slope and sharp curves,” as reported by Radio Banes on its social networks.

The seriously ill patients were transferred to the Lenin Hospital of the provincial capital and the rest were treated at the clinical-surgical hospital of the municipality. According to the aforementioned media, “the main party and government authorities of the territory” came to take an interest in the injured.

“In the early hours of this Wednesday, May 18, a traffic accident occurred in the area of Retrete Abajo, in this municipality of Banes, which left 15 people injured, three of them seriously, who were "They were immediately transferred to the Lenin hospital, in the provincial capital, and the rest were treated in the municipality," said Radio Banes.

At the time of writing this note, the causes of the accident, the site to which the workers were going and other details of what happened are unknown.

At the end of March, a pipe from the Cuba-Petroleum Union (CUPET) in serviceIt overturned on the Moa-Baracoa highway, leaving one dead and one injured.

The tragic accident occurred specifically in the dangerous stretch between the towns of Nibujón and Santa María, in the province of Guantánamo, as reported by a user of the Facebook group "ACCIDENTS BUSES & TRUCKS, for more experience and fewer victims!".

For his part, another user of the social network added that the vehicle was in service, and that it was making its second trip of the night transporting fuel, amid the shortage of that product at gas stations in the country.

Likewise, he denounced that the road has been in a repair project for more than 35 years without the authorities having so far completed the recovery of the road.

This Wednesday, a tragic traffic accident occurred in the early hours of the morning on the Central Highway, near Jatibonico, in the province of Sancti Spíritus,left a preliminary balance of three injured and one dead.

The accident took place "at kilometer 413 of the Central Highway, at the entrance to the Jatibonico hills," according to Maribel Hernández, director of a local media outlet, on social media.

This Tuesday, at a point near the city of Holguín, an old American car, one of those popularly known in Cuba as "almendrón",collided with a silo truck and was completely destroyed.

"The almendrón lost its direction," said user Juan José Rojas Peña in a publication from the same group, sharing images of the incident. However, other users who were alleged to have witnessed the accident indicated that there was no loss of human life.

"There was only the driver, he has a fracture in his leg and head. He got out of the car walking, but immediately fell to the ground. They quickly took him to the hospital," said one of them.

At the end of March, an accident involving two vintage American trucks and a Ladacaused the death of at least three people in Havana.

The accident occurred at night on Fifth Avenue in the capital, near the Santa Fe neighborhood. According to witnesses to the accident, one of the trucks collided head-on with the Lada, which was destroyed.

Likewise, they assured that there were three deaths and it occurred in front of the house of the vice president of the Council of Ministers, Ramiro Valdés, who lives in the Santa Fe neighborhood.