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A traffic accident leaves at least 5 dead ones in the highway of Siboney
Victor and Sanchez SANTIAGO OF CUBA - August 14, 2009 (www.aplopess.com) The past Sunday a light truck hit an automobile in the highway towards the beach of Siboney, to about 14 kilometers of .la city of Santiago of Cuba. As a result of collision five people passed away and two were seriously wounded. The excess of people in the massive transfer of passengers, the imprudences, the evil been of the vehicles, along with deficient of signaling and the deterioration of the routes has been the main causes of the great amount of road accidents that take place in Cuba. The transport shortage forces the people to resort to any means to be able to mobilize itself: tractors, trucks, cars thrown by horses and until the chivichanas, among others. when asking to him the Commissioner of Transport of just formed Government of Opposition in Santiago of Cuba, which was its vision on the matter indicated: “Many people blame to the owners of particular cars by the excess of passage, is not less certain that they have certain responsibility, as well as of the technical state of the equipment, but the fault is of the government, who does not allow the import of equipment designed specifically for passage, here are invented equipment, with adapted pieces, that do not have any technical guarantee�. On the subject, Juan Carlos Hernandez, who acts like promoter of the initiative of the opposition governments, said to us: “We are putting to us in contact with the familiar victims of this last accident, but we are going also it to do with the relatives of those people who are death by governmental negligence, by its responsibility in the general situation of the transport to put under a collective demand� In the 2008 10,665 traffic accidents took place, the highest number of last the five years, with a balance 778 died and 7, 707 injured. And in Cuba there is no type of certainly protects neither to the victims nor his relatives.  |
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