This year just nine traffic accidents left 26 dead
Yesterday two fatal accidents occurred on 6 of November and in Valverde
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SANTO DOMINGO. At least nine major traffic accidents reported by the press this year on important roadways of the country have left 98 injured and 26 dead. Toll roads such as Las Americas, Duarte and 6 of November, and highways to Barahona, Sanchez and Duarte are the locales of these accidents. The most recent occurred yesterday in the Los Cajuilitos Crossroads in Haina Arriba, which caused the death of three persons and injured 26. The other was on the Duarte Highway in Valverde province, which left four dead and six injured.
"I was in the seat in back of the driver," said Eriberto Ciprian, 45, who with his mind boggled was receiving first aid at the Ney Arias Lora Trauma Hospital after the accident on 6 of November. "When I see that the bus left the roadway, I think it is to pick up a passenger and I am looking and I see the driver has two arms on the wheel. There was a little tree and he went over it, and I asked: "Driver, what's up?"
Stories from several of the injured agree on the supposition that the driver was falling asleep. Nonetheless, the driver, Victor Ramirez, 22, said that a tank truck went through the crossroads and caused the accident.
"People are going like crazy, you have to be afraid in these crossroads," said Ramirez, laying on a stretcher in the Dario Contreras Hospital moments before that moved him from the Emergency Room to deal with the broken leg and arm.
Regarding the accident in Valverde, the fatalities died from blows received during a crash between two pickup trucks.
Last June, the Fire Department of Boca Chica and members of Civil Defense reported that on the Las Americas Toll Road there have been 63 accidents this year, which left 33 dead and 60 injured.
According to the Ministry of Public Health, the state invests RD$55 billion in attention to traffic accident victims, equal to 2% of GDP, an important sum in the ministry's budget.
In addition they say that 72% of the accident victims taken to the Dario Contreras Hospital, the country's major trauma center, are related to the consumption of alcohol while driving.
The World Health Organization says that the Dominican Republic is the second worst nation for fatal traffic accidents in the world, with a rate in 2013 of 41.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) attributes accidents to a lack of responsibility by the drivers among other variables.
"I was in the seat in back of the driver," said Eriberto Ciprian, 45, who with his mind boggled was receiving first aid at the Ney Arias Lora Trauma Hospital after the accident on 6 of November. "When I see that the bus left the roadway, I think it is to pick up a passenger and I am looking and I see the driver has two arms on the wheel. There was a little tree and he went over it, and I asked: "Driver, what's up?"
Stories from several of the injured agree on the supposition that the driver was falling asleep. Nonetheless, the driver, Victor Ramirez, 22, said that a tank truck went through the crossroads and caused the accident.
"People are going like crazy, you have to be afraid in these crossroads," said Ramirez, laying on a stretcher in the Dario Contreras Hospital moments before that moved him from the Emergency Room to deal with the broken leg and arm.
Regarding the accident in Valverde, the fatalities died from blows received during a crash between two pickup trucks.
Last June, the Fire Department of Boca Chica and members of Civil Defense reported that on the Las Americas Toll Road there have been 63 accidents this year, which left 33 dead and 60 injured.
According to the Ministry of Public Health, the state invests RD$55 billion in attention to traffic accident victims, equal to 2% of GDP, an important sum in the ministry's budget.
In addition they say that 72% of the accident victims taken to the Dario Contreras Hospital, the country's major trauma center, are related to the consumption of alcohol while driving.
The World Health Organization says that the Dominican Republic is the second worst nation for fatal traffic accidents in the world, with a rate in 2013 of 41.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) attributes accidents to a lack of responsibility by the drivers among other variables.
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