Havana/At least three people died and one remains hospitalized after a traffic accident that occurred last Saturday in Holguín. The accident occurred at dawn on the highway that goes from the provincial capital to Guardalavaca, when the driver lost control of the vehicle.
The information, in the absence of official reports, has been offered on social networks by acquaintances of the young people Fabián Ayala, Geidis Reyes, Odalis Domínguez and Marcos Cabrera, 18 years old, who was driving the vehicle and is the only survivor.
Many publications indicate that the young people were injured when they were returning from a concert by Cuban musician Yomil Hidalgo in the city. The show was held the night before, on Friday, June 7, at the Bariay Cultural Center. According to the last post of one of the victims, broadcast around five in the morning on Saturday, the boys were at The Passion bar before the incident.
Other details about the accident suggest that the Holguín residents were heading to Guardalavaca at high speed, so the vehicle went out of control and ended up falling down a slope located on the side of the road. Images of the car in which they were supposedly traveling have also been shared, a modern Hyundai brand car that was destroyed by the impact.
The crash between a truck and a Fiat Polski this Monday in Guanabacoa, Havana was also in the news
The crash between a truck and a Fiat Polski this Monday in Guanabacoa, Havana, on the corner of Santo Domingo and Estrada Palma streets was also in the news. The vehicles collided after the driver of the Fiat – who reportedly died – violated a traffic signal. stop.
Two weeks ago, another crash between a Toyota belonging to the Cuban Foreign Ministry and an almendrón on the corner of 17th and G, in Havana’s El Vedado, was reported by this newspaper from the scene of the accident. The traffic lights at that intersection were out at that time. Blackouts have put traffic in the capital in check and crashes due to lack of coordination of vehicles are becoming more frequent.
The newspaper Granma The number of accidents, 729 deaths and 5,938 people who were injured in 2023 stood at 8,556. According to the information offered by the official media in January of this year, the irresponsibility of drivers and pedestrians caused 91% of these accidents. That is at least the official version of these figures, which do not include factors such as the state of the roads, or the sudden blackouts of road signals.
