The section of the Carretera Central that runs from Ciego de Ávila to Camagüey has once again been the focus of a regrettable news story about accidents in Cuba, when on Thursday a bus from the Tourist Transport Company (TRANSTUR) went off the road and ended up crashed into a tree.
"At around four in Suferry, entering Ciego de Ávila from Camagüey. I don't have details. It doesn't seem serious," reported a user in the Facebook group 'Accidentes Buses & Camiones', sharing an image of the incident, in which fortunately it seems there were no fatalities or serious injuries.
Photographs shared in the mentioned group allowed for an appreciation of the frontal collision of the bus against what appears to be a Cuban cedar or an acacia, which caused the breaking of the front windshield and the bodywork. The causes that led to the accident are unknown, and it has not been reported by the authorities, the company, or the state-run media.
In the comments on the post, several users pointed out that it is the same stretch of the Carretera Central where an accident occurred on July 31 that resulted in the deaths of two people, one of whom was the driver of a truck that also ended up crashed against a tree at the edge of the roadway.
"Again the same stretch where the truck driver died days ago," pointed out a user. "It doesn't get any better on that stretch," agreed another. "There is a very dangerous dip on that stretch. If you don't know it, it can catch you by surprise. There the passenger truck driver died last month," explained a third.
At the end of August, an accident occurred on the National Highway, on the stretch from Irijoa to Arroyo Blanco, in the municipality of Palma Soriano in Santiago de Cuba, resulting in nine injuries, two of them serious, when a TRANSTUR bus collided with a trailer belonging to EMGEF Power Generation fuel oil generators, which was headed towards Contramaestre.
According to Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, the first secretary of the Party in the province, the bus from the company TRANSTUR Habana was transporting 40 Cuban passengers from the capital to Santiago de Cuba.
At the end of April, an accident between a bus from the TRANSTUR company and a ZIL-130 truck in the municipality of Madruga, in the province of Mayabeque, resulted in two fatalities, four people with serious injuries, and several with minor injuries.
On the bus were workers from the Ernesto Guevara thermoelectric plant in Santa Cruz del Norte, assured Radio Mayabeque journalist María Amalia Pérez Suárez through her Facebook profile. For its part, the truck belonged to the loading base of Madruga, in the same province.
In mid-March, a TRANSTUR bus and a military jeep were involved in an accident with no injuries in the city of Santa Clara, Villa Clara. The incident occurred at the intersection of Máximo Gómez and Martí streets, according to several witnesses on social media.
A report from June 2018, published in the state-run media Ahora, pointed to the state company TRANSTUR as the entity causing the highest number of traffic accidents in the area.
As a carrier of the Ministry of Tourism of Cuba, TRANSTUR is the most important company of its kind in the country. With a fleet of more than 7,000 vehicles at that time, the company provides services to others like Cubacar, Havanautos, and Rex, for car rentals.
TRANSTUR Ómnibus, dedicated to bus rental, offers buses with included drivers to agencies such as Cubatur, Cubanacán, Havanatur, Gaviota, Sol y Son, and Paradiso, among others.
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