Andalmond crashed into a tree inVedado this Wednesday in an aparotosoaccident which left five injured, according to reports on social networks.
The accident occurred this morning on the curve of Línea Street between D and E, as revealed toCyberCuba a local neighbor. So far no loss of life has been reported and local authorities are investigating what happened.
The Internet user who reported the accident in the Facebook group Bus and Truck Accidents,Indian that the incident took place on Línea and F streets, in the aforementioned neighborhood of the Plaza de La Revolución municipality in Havana.
A shocking photo published by the aforementioned source showed the unfortunate state of the vehicle, whose front part was destroyed after crashing into the trunk of a tree.
Although the cause of the accident is not clear, many Internet users believe that, given the magnitude of the crash,It is very possible that the car was speeding.
"Speed!"; "Put the stamp on it, speeding, sad but it almost always happens, the brokerage, the potholes, the inventions in the almond trees and everything else... there is the result"; "Keep running"; "Speed and quite possibly alcohol," some commentators wrote.
Residents in the area recommend that drivers moderate their speed in that section, something dangerous for pedestrians.
There was no shortage of people who pointed out that many almendrones drivers forget that they drive very old cars, that they don't even have steering, and that they are all very patched up and full of inventions.
At the closing of this note, the clinical condition of the injured or other details about the incident have not been revealed., which adds to other very serious accidents that have occurred in recent hours.
Four people - including two minors -They died this Wednesday in the town of Las Tosas, in Sancti Spíritus, when the driver of a private truck carrying 10 people tried to cross a swollen river on a bridge without railings. During the crossing, the driver lost control of the vehicle, which left the road and was swept away by the waters with all its occupants.
Also this Wednesday, another devastating event devastatedthe life of a university student and left four other people injured after a jeep overturned on a stretch of the highway between San Antonio del Sur and Macambo, in Guantánamo.
On Tuesday afternoon a truck from a rural cooperativecrashed on a road of the San Luis municipality, in Santiago de Cuba, and caused the death of four people and injuries to nine others.
Traffic accidents have increased alarmingly this year in Cuba. At least3,620 road incidents were recorded in the first five months, resulting in 290 deaths and 2,807 injuries. The Cuban authorities have not updated the accident data to date.
Between January and May 20233,620 traffic accidents occurred on the island, which left 290 dead and 2,807 injured, according to official figures.
In Cuba, six out of every ten accidents leave victims, mainly due to vehicle collisions. In the case of pedestrian collisions, for every five collisions, one person dies.
Between January and May, 22% of those affected in the accidents were people between 21 and 35 years old, while the ages of the majority of the fatal victims ranged between 46 and 55 years. The time of highest incidence of accidents is between 3 and 6 in the afternoon, and 70% of road incidents occur in urban areas.
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