Bad road, bad tires, bad driver, overloaded van... take yer pick
Bad roads, so the drivers have to swerve too much when they are speeding. Sometimes they lose control.
Bad road, bad tires, bad driver, overloaded van... take yer pick
The good news no one was killed and the passengers were all relatively young so with halfway decent medical treatment will survive.
If the money were there the road could be fixed in a week. Grind it, fix underlying problems in the base, oil it and pave it with a paving machine.
The paving done in DR never fixes weak base, never uses enough binder and asphalt is often placed cold and even over wet a base course - all recipes for potholes to return in weeks.
PUERTO PLATA.- Eight people were injured when a minibus loaded with passengers overturned due to the poor state of the road that links the tourist communities of Sosúa and Cabarete, in the eastern part of this Atlantic province.
The road accident occurred on the Coconut Palms-Perla Marina stretch of highway, almost opposite the entrance of the Bombite sector of Cabarete, when one that covers the public transportation route Puerto Plata-Río San Juan, suffered a rollover after one of the front tires blew out.
http://detrasdelrumor.com.do/volcad...ltrecha-carretera-que-une-a-sosua-y-cabarete/
PUERTO PLATA.- Eight people were injured when a minibus loaded with passengers overturned due to the poor state of the road that links the tourist communities of Sosúa and Cabarete, in the eastern part of this Atlantic province.
The road accident occurred on the Coconut Palms-Perla Marina stretch of highway, almost opposite the entrance of the Bombite sector of Cabarete, when one that covers the public transportation route Puerto Plata-Río San Juan, suffered a rollover after one of the front tires blew out.
http://detrasdelrumor.com.do/volcad...ltrecha-carretera-que-une-a-sosua-y-cabarete/
That part of the road has some pot holes, but nothing crazy, People dont know how to drive and no amount of pot hole repair will help there. If that road were smooth as glass there, the cars and busses would go even faster and we would have more head on collisions, But I would still like to see some pothole repair, just be advised the UFOs will be coming at you a little faster
Blaming the road is pure BS. Look at where the girl ended up compared to where the vehicle was in the background. Speed kills, not roads......... I despise those death rides to Sabaneta. The drivers doing the Sabineta to Moca run travel slow Since they have a set amount of runs a day. Where at la Bomba in Sosua it is done shotgun per volume. So the faster you go the more round trips you get. With all the talk about tourism on the North Coast maybe some buses can be supported with all the tourist taxes and fees at the airport. But that might make too much sense. All the tourist areas in Mexico have some sort of transport system other than gua guas or price gouging taxis. But I guess the DR is is in a rush to become the first to eliminate paper and coin currency for an all plastic society.
Or...speed bumps.Thing is that if you did fix the road, people will just drive faster thus negating any positive safety improvement. I've always been a fan of the stupid tax. But radar guns for cops, pull people over for driving stupid, and use the proceeds to fix the road. Safety is bound to improve.