Fuel pipe overturns in Mayabeque

A tanker truck with a trailer that was transportingcombustible It overturned on Friday night in the province of Mayabeque, causing part of the precious cargo to spill, just at a time of maximum tension forthe fuel crisis that is being experienced in Cuba.

The truck, belonging to the state companyCUP, overturned on a curve in the road near the hamlet of Paula, in Santa Cruz del Norte.

No serious injuries were reported after the accident, the causes of which are being investigated and which required the dispatch of firefighters to the area.

“A fuel pipe with a trailer overturned at the curve of the ditch on the Loma del Tanque - El Comino highway. Firefighters sprinkle coconut on the pavement to prevent fuel spills. A tanker car carried out the transfer. No loss of human life. Attention drivers, traffic on the road is impossible,” he reported in hissocial networks Santa Cruz native Agustín González Estévez.

In photographs shared by this local resident, you can see the road covered with a type of white sand in the area of the accident. Apparently, this is the solution used to contain the fuel spill, which González Estévez identified as coconut scattered by firefighters.

According to the sitevirtualpro.co, coconut and lemon constitute 90 percent of the composition of a surfactant (chemical product that reduces the surface tension of liquids, facilitating the action of a detergent) of plant origin that can be used as an alternative solution to the use of products chemicals with which contamination from hydrocarbon spills is usually eliminated.

“Selfless work of the TRANSCUPET crane and workers. They lift the pipe and the trailer. Work continues at the site,” González Estévez reported in anotherpublication. According to this user, “the authorities of the Municipal Defense Council, chaired by the first secretary of the municipal committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Santa Cruz del Norte, went to the place.Zoel Sánchez Machín.

Notifying drivers of the closure of the Loma del Tanque - El Comino highway, the Internet user reported that an "alternative route through Los Jardines - Batey Camilo Cienfuegos" was opened.

“The police and other authorities are investigating the causes, and other organizations are working on solutions,” said González Estévez, who, in aupdate of the incident, he noted that traffic resumed at midnight this Friday on the affected road.

“Attention to drivers of any vehicle: take extreme safety measures. There are still oil stains next to the coconut… In the morning the sanitation tasks will continue.”

The incident occurs at a time of maximum tension among the population due to theenergy crisis in the country, against whichThe authorities of the regime recognize their confusion and uncertainty about how to solve it..

"We are not clear how we will get out of this"said the rulerMiguel Diaz-Canel in mid-April. At the end of July of last year, explaining to the deputies the causes of the energy crisis, the president expressed:"It's just that we are salty with this energy thing".

In mid-March, a pipe - also belonging to the state-owned CUPET - overturned in the Obelisco de Marianao roundabout,causing a fuel spill which forced the evacuation of several schools in the area.

Firefighters and forces from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) went to the scene to control the profuse fuel spill by applying "foam and other techniques, as well as cleaning work."

Last August, another pipe, used for the evacuation of crude oil stored in the damaged Matanzas Supertanker Base,caught fire on the Vía Blanca.

Apparently, the cause of the accident - which caused an immense column of black smoke - was the burst of a front tire of the vehicle, which would have caused it to overturn and explode. The driver was able to escape earlier and only suffered minor injuries.

Just two months earlier, in June, another one overturned on a highway near Bayamo, with no injuries reported.

In a video shared on social networks,the pipe was seen overturned on the side of the road, tangled between power lines. The vehicle was apparently not carrying fuel at the time the accident occurred.

In recent days, a Cuban truck driver alerted his colleagues about the serious danger of driving with tires in poor condition and urged them not to drive their vehicle if they did not have the appropriate tires, because they could "make their lives miserable."

In a social media post, the driver indicated that he had suffered an accident on Monumental, at the entrance to the Free Trade Zone (Havana), which fortunately left no injuries.

"Two rear tires just burst and I went against a bus stop that had several people,” said Jorge William Aguilera Carrillo. “There are no longer any tires to work with, but well, on Facebook I do see that there are quite a few, they are worth 70,000, 80,000 pesos, those outrageous things when what you charge here is 5,000 pesos at a premium,” he lamented.