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12-22-2008, 05:30 PM
Eight people were killed in road accidents over the weekend. One accident caused five deaths and another three. The first accident occurred on the Sanchez highway between Azua and Bani, and the other one at Km 12 of the Las Americas Expressway.
The first was a three-vehicle crash at Km 2 of the highway between Azua and Bani, involving a truck from the President's Social Plan that was carrying Christmas boxes.
The victims were Manuel Ramon Cruz Brito, 41, Ramon Ivan Perez, 53, Reimaire Diaz, 44, a US citizen, her daughter Alisa Cristina Diaz, 8 and her sister Miguelina Diaz, 32.
Dominican-Cuban Manuel Orachea and Dominican Hector Soto, 42 were injured in the crash and treated in Bani.
A police report indicates that the accident happened at 6:30 yesterday morning between the truck belonging to the Presidential Social Plan and a SUV that was driven by Orchea and a blue pick up with Cruz Brito as a passenger.
The second accident involved a car carrying three passengers that crashed into an auto parts store called Danny Motors. According to El Caribe, the car hit a concrete column and was totally destroyed.
The dead were identified as Euri Morillo, a lieutenant in the National Police who was driving, Rudy Francisco Sanchez and Eduardo Benzan.
According to witness statements at the scene, the accident occurred at 8:30 at night when a motorcyclist crossed the vehicle's path and Morillo, trying to avoid hitting it, turned hard and hit the store. Besides the occupants of the vehicle, there were no other injuries.
These latest victims bring the death toll to 16 people killed in traffic accidents in one week.
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The first was a three-vehicle crash at Km 2 of the highway between Azua and Bani, involving a truck from the President's Social Plan that was carrying Christmas boxes.
The victims were Manuel Ramon Cruz Brito, 41, Ramon Ivan Perez, 53, Reimaire Diaz, 44, a US citizen, her daughter Alisa Cristina Diaz, 8 and her sister Miguelina Diaz, 32.
Dominican-Cuban Manuel Orachea and Dominican Hector Soto, 42 were injured in the crash and treated in Bani.
A police report indicates that the accident happened at 6:30 yesterday morning between the truck belonging to the Presidential Social Plan and a SUV that was driven by Orchea and a blue pick up with Cruz Brito as a passenger.
The second accident involved a car carrying three passengers that crashed into an auto parts store called Danny Motors. According to El Caribe, the car hit a concrete column and was totally destroyed.
The dead were identified as Euri Morillo, a lieutenant in the National Police who was driving, Rudy Francisco Sanchez and Eduardo Benzan.
According to witness statements at the scene, the accident occurred at 8:30 at night when a motorcyclist crossed the vehicle's path and Morillo, trying to avoid hitting it, turned hard and hit the store. Besides the occupants of the vehicle, there were no other injuries.
These latest victims bring the death toll to 16 people killed in traffic accidents in one week.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)