Five people were injured, including a one -year -old girlwhen impacting a car against a bicycle on the morning of this Tuesday, in the municipality of Puerto Padre, province of Las Tunas.
According to official sources, the injured in the accident are Xiomara Rodríguez Filantro, Daniel Pérez Pérez, Raúl Pérez Machado, Edel Ramírez Garcés And the girl Nasly Pérez Fernández.
The five injured were immediately taken to the Guillermo Domínguez López Teaching Hospital, in Puerto Padre, where the Integrated Medical Emergency System was activated and received attention from a multidisciplinary team, reported the station Radio Victoria.
Two of the injured required transfer to provincial hospitalssaid journalist Rosa María Ramírez Reyes in a publication on her Facebook profile.
One of the people – it was not specified which one – was sent to the Ernesto Guevara Provincial Hospital, in the municipality of Cabecera, and The child, to the Pediatric Hospital Mártirres de las Tunas, for “cerebral contusion without neurological take, at the time of attention, and with facial edema”as explained by Dr. Renato Almaguer Bosch, a pediatrics specialist.
In preliminary reports of the accident in Facebook groups, witnesses assured that the car, of the Lada brand, lost the direction and ran over a man and a child who went on the bicycle, who had been seriously injured because the vehicle “fell on them.”
However, this version of the facts has not been confirmed by official sources, which have not advanced information on how and why this happened Terrible accidentin front of the forest of love and the electromedicine workshop, on the road to the hospital.
The photos and videos of the collision scene show the car completely overturned and the bicycle shattered.
Several people referred to the poor state of the road on Facebook in that area, while others pointed to possible speed or bad technical conditions of the LADA as probable causes of the accident.
Until the time of publishing this note, the authorities have not provided updated information on the evolution of the injured.
This event adds to the worrying list of road incidents in Cubamany of which involve cyclists, one of the most vulnerable groups in the streets of the country.
