The driver of the freight truck that struck the 30-passenger bus from Santo Domingo head-on earlier this week and caused nine deaths and several injuries has admitted that he was driving in the wrong lane. Sources at the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) said that Marcelo Aquino admitted that he was in the wrong lane at the time of the accident. An AMET statement in El Caribe says “he invaded the east to west lane in which the minibus laden with passengers was traveling on the way to Vicente Noble and Tamayo….”
According to the article the truck driver was drinking and racing another truck down the highway when the accident occurred. The driver of the other truck then helped Aquino to escape the accident scene and reach the Casa del Conductor in Santo Domingo where he turned himself in. However, he was removed from the Casa del Conductor and taken to jail in Azua where he awaits a hearing on serious charges.