Truck overturns on Las Tunas highway

And truck was overturned on the side of the Central Highway of Cuba in Las Tunas, a few kilometers from the city, at the exit to the neighboring province of Holguin.

There were no serious injuries reported in the incident, as reported this Saturday by users in the group of Facebook 'Revolico Las 40 Tunas'. It is unknown how many occupants were traveling in the accident truck.

“Accident in Las Tunas, near the checkpoint,” reported a user who shared an image of the overturned truck surrounded by people. The information did not specify the causes or the time at which the accident occurred.

At the time of writing this note, the province in which the vehicle is registered or the use for which it was intended are also unknown.

“Luckily nothing happened,” said in the comments a user who claimed to live near the scene of the accident, located according to the author of the publication near the PNR checkpoint in Las Tunas.

Near this checkpoint is a stop for inspectors (known as “yellows”) at the Las Tunas exit towards Holguín. “It seems that it was because of the ‘yellows’ of Holguín (in Las Tunas),” said another user.

“My mother, thank God, came out of the operation well. There were no major problems,” said a user identified as Lisbet M. Mena Peña in the aforementioned Facebook group. This editorial team contacted Mena Peña to expand details, but at the time of writing this note had not received a response.

“Thank you to everyone who has cared about my mother. He is now out of danger. Thank God and the excellent doctor who operated on her,” the woman said in a publication of her social networks.

This Friday, the driver of a truck that suffered an accident in the province of Granma spent several hours trapped in the vehicle until he was finally rescued by rescuers from the fire department.

Up to four hours passed Yobanis Peña Soto, trapped inside the cabin of the truck, after having lost control of it and having overturned on a road in the municipality of Jiguaní.

As reported on its social networks by the official media CNC TV Granma, the accident occurred this Friday in Loma del Yarey, and the driver and a passenger were involved, who managed to be rescued immediately.

The poor state of the roads in Cuba, added to the difficulties in purchasing spare parts - necessary for repairs and maintenance of trucks and other heavy vehicles on the Island - affect their accident figures.

At the end of March, a truck and a bus that covered the Baracoa-Santiago de Cuba route They collided on the La Farola highway, in the province of Guantánamo, in an accident in which three people were injured.

On the same dates, a truck hit a pharmacy in the province of Sancti Spíritus, allegedly after failing to climb a slope located on a road in the town of Jíquima.

A day before this event, the driver of a public transport truck was injured after his vehicle fell from a bridge at kilometer 64 of the National Highway.