One man died and another was seriously injured after a accidentoccurred this Tuesday afternoon in San Antonio de Los Baños, in the province ofSagebrush, according to reports on social networks.
The accident took place at the entrance of the municipality, in front of the CUPET called "El Mariano". The preliminary cause of the accident has not been revealed.
Alejandro Rivero Sordo, a witness who directly helped the victims and asked for help through a video to identify the victims from their vehicles, explained thatAfter the impact, a fire broke out.
Rivero Sordo showed the state of the two motorcycles, a red Minsk and a Ural motorcycle withside car the color blue.
Based on the testimony of several acquaintances of the injured, it was determined that the deceased isNivaldo Torres, a former police officer who was traveling on the red motorcycle.
The seriously injured would beEddy Nelson Acosta Cabrera, who works as Workshop Manager at the Güira de Melena Transportation Base.
After the accident, the injured were taken to the Iván Portuondo General Teaching Hospital, where Nivaldo Torres reportedly died.
Eddy Nelson Acosta was referred to the Military Hospital in Havana.
"Eddy is in a coma. Now he came into the room"wrote Internet user Yetien Seguí, who identified herself as a friend of the injured man.
"Here we neighbors did our best, really. I went into the fire to get one of them out, crazy, I know, but the impulse gave me that and therefore it also hurts me that they died," insisted the witness to the accident in the comments section of his publication.
A witness noted that thanks to the quick reaction of the CUPET workers, who put out the fire, there were no more lives to regret.
At the closing of this note there are no other confirmed details about the serious accident, one of the first on record in the recently begun 2024.
Accidents did not give up on Cuban roads in 2023.Between January and October Cuba registered 6,965 traffic accidents, which represented an increase of 12.8% in relation to the accidents that occurred in the same period of the previous year, according to official figures.
The almost 7 thousand accidents that occurred in the first ten months of last year left 562 dead and 5,643 injured.
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