NewsWhore
09-01-2008, 02:30 PM
Six persons died and 18 were injured in a double accident at Km. 16 of Duarte Highway, at Loma de Miranda, between Bonao and La Vega. In the initial crash at 1pm on Saturday, the tire of a Transporte Cibao intercity bus transporting passengers exploded, causing the bus to lose control and slide down a slope. La Vega firetrucks and ambulances were sent to the scene with rescue teams. The scene was mobbed by onlookers, and Metropolitan Traffic Authority agents were directing traffic.
Barely an hour later, a Mack truck with an Evergreen freight container would pass at excessive speed and would crash into bystander vehicles, running over several people observing the scene. The truck would only stop after it crashed into a pine tree some 100 meters from where it first lost control. In the process, it collided into a Daihatsu truck loaded with rice, an Aetra intra-urban bus, the ambulance and firemen truck, a Toyota car and five motorcycles. The driver of the freighter fled the site.
News reports say that 12 of the 18 injured that were hospitalized at the Professor Juan Bosch La Vega Trauma Hospital are recovering satisfactorily at the Professor Juan Bosch La Vega Trauma Hospital and could be released tomorrow. A hospital report indicates that only one of the injured is in the intensive care unit, but in stable condition. Others were interned in La Vega and Santiago hospitals.
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Barely an hour later, a Mack truck with an Evergreen freight container would pass at excessive speed and would crash into bystander vehicles, running over several people observing the scene. The truck would only stop after it crashed into a pine tree some 100 meters from where it first lost control. In the process, it collided into a Daihatsu truck loaded with rice, an Aetra intra-urban bus, the ambulance and firemen truck, a Toyota car and five motorcycles. The driver of the freighter fled the site.
News reports say that 12 of the 18 injured that were hospitalized at the Professor Juan Bosch La Vega Trauma Hospital are recovering satisfactorily at the Professor Juan Bosch La Vega Trauma Hospital and could be released tomorrow. A hospital report indicates that only one of the injured is in the intensive care unit, but in stable condition. Others were interned in La Vega and Santiago hospitals.
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