Truck and car that fell into a ditch in Havana are lifted with a crane

The truck and the Lada car were removed with a crane.They fell into a ditch on the Calzada de Vento, in the Cerro municipality, during a spectacular accident this Thursday morning.

In the accident, the truck (apparently a Russian ZIL-130 vehicle, known as V8)fell on the car, partially crushing it and, despite the severity of the accident,no one was hurt.

Part of the operation with a crane to remove the vehicles was documented in twovideos uploaded to Facebook by communicator Leonardo Mesa.

"Right now. Accident on Vento Avenue. Pedestrian crossing on the way to the Monaco Shopping Center. Cerro Municipality. Havana city. The poor conditions of state trucks are the cause of many accidents in Cuba. Cuba failed state”, indicates the description of thevideos.

The audiovisuals capture the moment in which the Lada car that had been buried in the ditch is extracted. Previously, the truck had been removed.

According to preliminary reports about the incident, published by users of the Facebook group “Bus & Truck Accidents for more experience and fewer victims!”, the incident occurred in the morning, in theentrance to Monaco, through the pedestrian crossing that leads to the neighborhood and the ball field. The causes are still unknown.

Several people agreed in pointing out in the publication that it is a dangerous area and warned that extreme caution should be taken in that section.

“That piece of Vento is dangerous, the right side should have strong barriers, any maneuver you fall into the ditch, deep by the way,” said one Internet user.

“For me it is the highest ditch in Havana, once you step on it there is no turning back, it itself pulls you, you have to be extremely careful and even more so if there is the P16 that passes by there that takes the path and a little, I don't think there were any deaths because luckily the red cart looked like it fell into the hole and the truck didn't crush it,” added another.

There has been no official confirmation of this accident, which adds to other similar events reported in recent hours.

The eve,primary school students suffered minor injuries in the Palma Soriano municipality, in Santiago de Cuba, whenThe school bus in which they were traveling fell into a hole on a stretch of rural road in very poor condition.. The accident occurred around 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday with a truck that was covering the route from San Luis to the rural town of El Paraná.

More than a thousand traffic accidents were reported in Cuba between June and August, with a balance of72 dead and 543 injuredreported the Specialized Traffic Body of the General Directorate of the National Revolutionary Police.