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Bus/Truck Collision Leave 6
Dead, 15 Injured on
Interamericana
Six dead and fifteen injured as
a bus coming from El Salvador
collided with a tractor trailer
headed for Guatemala. The
accident occurred on kilometre
132 of Interamerican highway,
near Puntarenas.
The Ticabus, with 43 passengers
of board, headed for San José
was "clipped" by a truck headed
north. Five women died at the
scene, while a man died in
hospital after he was rushed to
the Monseñor Sanabria hospital
in Puntarenas.
JOsé Serrano, regional director
for the Tránsito del Pacífico
Central, said the accident
occurred on a tight curve on the
road when the truck click the
upper part of the bus from the
fourth window to the rear, which
impacted unto the passengers,
causing the deaths and injuries.
The accident occurred at 7:30pm
Saturday night, near the
Aranjuez river just north of
Puntarenas. A passenger on the
bus said that they had left San
Salvador at 3am and some of the
passengers were sleeping at the
time of the accident, being only
a couple of hours away from San
José.
In addition to the six deaths,
the Cruz Roja (Red Cross)
attended to 15 other passengers
who had suffered injuries.
Doctors at the Monseñor Sanabria
hospital said that all the
injured were in stable condition
and most were Hondurans and
Salvadorians.
The driver of the tractor
trailer was also taken to
hospital and is recovering.
Initial reports were that the
driver, who is Guatemalan,
returning to his country with a
load, had fled the scene.
However, transit officials later
learned that he was one of the
persons taken to hospital.
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