[Auto/moto] Appalling accident on the verge of the start of the curfew

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The desperation of a driver to arrive before the curfew began led a driver of a gray Hyundai Sonata car to cross the red traffic light and meet a gray Nissan Kicks SUV that was carrying inside four people.

 

 

Desperation to get home before curfew led a driver of a gray Hyundai Sonata to cross the red light and meet a gray Nissan Kicks SUV that was carrying four people.

 

Around 8:45 at night the roar of the impact between the two vehicles was heard. Followed by two more hits. The jeep crashed against the post that supports the traffic lights, being destroyed. And knocking down, like ripe fruits, two traffic lights.

 

Then the disconsolate cry of one of the people in the jeep. The worst was expected.

 

Luckily no one was seriously injured, although both vehicles were in very poor condition.

The incident occurred at the intersection of Abraham Lincoln Avenue with Max Henríquez Ureña Street, in the National District. The Hyundai was traveling from north to south; those of the Nissan in an east-west direction.

 

According to witnesses, the driver of the Hyundai car crossed the red light at high speed. The man driving the vehicle just said, "I want to cross the bridge before curfew." A driver who saw the accident told Diario Libre reporters that the Hyundai driver had passed other previous traffic lights at high speed.

 

The passengers and the driver in the SUV were stunned but not seriously injured. The main regret was his mother's new jeep. The 911 ambulance treated them all, they were stable.

 

Minutes later, the mother of the young people arrived, who after checking that her children were well repeated the warning: "That happens to them for leaving 15 minutes before curfew."

 

Once the representative of the authority, a Digesett agent arrived, all the witnesses pointed to the culprit.

 

Like this accident, there are dozens that occur when the end of freedom of transit approaches.

 

In fact, despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced business activity in the Dominican Republic, traffic fatalities continue with appalling frequency.

 

The director of the traumatic hospital Ney Arias Lora, Julio Landrón, warned on Friday that the Dominican Republic will end this year with around 4 thousand deaths from traffic accidents, which represents an average of about 11 deaths a day or the same as one death each two hours.