DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Three tourists were killed due to injuries suffered on Wednesday, 8 October 2022 and three dozen more were injured when a bus swerved and landed on its side on the Bulevar del Este in Punta Cana. The deceased and injured were taken to the Hospiten, Hospital IMG and Centro Médico Punta Cana in central Punta Cana. There is no public hospital in Punta Cana. The deceased were identified as Argentinians Valeria Paola Medina and Valeria Victoria Brovelli and Carla Rodríguez from Peru.

Preliminary reports indicate bus driver 47-year old Franklin Nin Perez was speeding when taking a pronounced curve.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office assures in its accusatory file that the driver was driving under the influence of cocaine, “without caution, in a careless, reckless, reckless and imprudent manner.” The prosecutors cite a urine test carried out to the driver at the IMG hospital. The...