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A Cargo vehicle who was carrying dozens of packages of cement to a real estate project in Sabaneta was involved in a spectacular traffic accident during this Wednesday morning.
In context: More than 9,000 people will move along the narrow and steep rural road of Sabaneta, designed for 400 residents.
As confirmed by the Mayor’s Office of Sabaneta, the vehicle ended up overturning while went up along a steep slope access road to the San José sidewalkone of the areas with the greatest urban growth in that municipality in the south of the Aburrá Valley.
“Our traffic agents are on the scene attending to the situation. Fortunately, no injuries reported”, reported the local government.
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The sinister reopened the discussion on the controls and safety measures towards the vehicles used by the construction companies in that area that use said access road, in which multiple similar accidents have already occurred in the past.
Although this corridor initially served for the transit of approximately 400 local residentsit is estimated that in the coming years it should support a vehicular flow of approximately 9,000 residents.
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During the rainy season, the inhabitants of the village have also raised their voices in protest against the danger posed by the road, in which it became a constant that the skid and crash.
As a result of this controversy, in February of this year, the local government even made the decision to suspend the movement of trucks around the area, looking for construction companies They will extreme their protocols to avoid accidents like this Wednesday.
In addition to these shock measures, in dialogue with EL COLOMBIANO, the mayor of Sabaneta, Alder Cruz, had also indicated an agreement to widen a section of South 77th Street until its intersection with Carrera 34, added to the construction of a street between the sectors of Cañaveralejo and San José; two measures that would seek to provide a fundamental solution.
