Tragedy on The Roads Seems to Have No End
Yesterday a couple and their two children where killed when a trailer fully loaded with sand could not stop and rammed into a bus loaded with passengers on Route 32.

The accident occurred at 8:30am on the road from San José to Limón, at the Quebrada González bridge, 20 kilometres past the Zurquí tunnel.

The victims were identified as 39 year old José Alfredo Quirós Solano, his wife Sonia Castillo Pérez, 37, and their children, Kenneth and Steven, 14 and 6 years old, respectively.

Sonia's father told reporters that her daughter and her family was headed to San José to spend time with their family in Tres Rios.

According to the Tránsito (traffic) police report, a number of vehicles stopped to give way to a truck that was turning left to unload its cargo. The Solano vehicle was one of the vehicles, when the loaded tractor trailer, driven by a 21 year old man, could not stop due to the excessive speed and the load and rammed into the Solano's, dragging it and another four vehicles that were also stopped on the road.

The Solona vehicle, a Hyundai, was left trapped between the truck and a Caribeños bus full of passengers.

When the Cruz Roja (Red Cross) was on the scene, the Alfredo family had already perished, and they could only attend to the other seven people who received cuts and bruises in the accident.

Five of the injured were taken to the Calderón Guardia hospital in San José, while the other two were sent to the San Vicente de Paul hospital, in Heredia.

Tránsito official Julio Duarte told the press that, in his judgment, the tractor trailer was speeding and too late to stop when he realized the vehicles ahead of him were stopped. For Duarte this is a clear case of carelessness on the part of the driver

The driver of the bus said that he saw the Hyundai slow down behind him and then out of nowhere came the speeding truck and within seconds the passengers of the Hyundai were dead. A passenger of one the other vehicles in the accident told of how she saw the bus coming at her and was pushed off the road.