Girl in critical condition due to accident near Matanzas

A ten-year-old girl is in critical condition after the brutalshock between a pipe and a truck that was transporting passengers on Tuesday morning in Santa Cruz del Norte, province ofMayabeque.

The minor has been identified asNayeis Gonzalez Villamil, and is admitted to intensive care with severe head trauma, under the action of the team of intensivists at the Elíseo Noel Caamaño pediatric hospital in Matanzas, as announced insocial networks the journalist José Miguel Solís.

The same source added - citing Dr. Julio Hernández Sánchez, director of the hospital facility as a source - that in addition to Nayeis, two other minors are admitted to that hospital, whose clinical condition is not so complicated.

They areEstefany González Villamil, 13 years old, who is admitted to the Orthopedics room andHarly Romero Cruz, seven years old, which remains in the "Miscellaneous" room of the hospital.

Dr. Julio Hernández specified that a multidisciplinary team is currently caring for little Nayleis Gonzalez Villamil, who remains in critical condition, with danger to her life.

The official journalist specified thatEight injured were received at the Faustino Pérez Hospital and that the information will be expanded shortly.

Although he anticipated that there were deaths, as was revealed on social networks, at the close of this note he has not specified how many.

According to preliminary reports on social networks, the accident occurred on La Vía Blanca, near Puerto Escondido, and left two dead, a figure that some unofficial reports increase to three.

At the time of writing there are no other official details about the tragic event.

Another recent accident, which occurred at noon this Monday in the Contramaestre municipality, inSantiago de Cuba, left at least one person dead and three seriously injured, after the car they were traveling in overturned.

In that case the accident occurred near the Contramaestre iron bridge, an area that some Internet users described as dangerous because it has a speed bump that is not easily distinguishable and that makes traffic difficult if you go at excess speed.

During the first four months of 2023, more than 3,000 accidents were recorded in Cuba, with 243 deaths and more than 2,300 injuries, according to official data released in May.

According to statistics, one in five people involved in traffic accidents has died.

Cuba closed 2022 with 9,848 traffic accidents between January and December, a figure that represented a record compared to previous years. The accidents in that period left a toll of 700 dead, almost two a day; Of them, 68 were minors. Additionally, 7,547 people were injured.