Another 14 persons are still hospitalized, but as of the end of the week, the authorities had 12 dead in the Monday, 27 November 2023 vehicle collision in Haina, San Cristobal.
The corpse of the driver of the commuter bus impacted by the freight truck transporting cement in bulk was the last to be found under the debris of both vehicles. 47-year old Uri Mendez de Leon had been reported missing. His body was identified by his brother by his denture.
The truck was transporting cement to a San Cristobal hardware store. A surveillance video shows the truck speeding as it made its way to Haina and then how the driver looses control and collides into the bus, sending both down a cliff to a gully off the Carretera Sanchez road to San Cristobal. The freighter truck smashed the bus, resulting in the death of 12 persons so far. 20 persons were injured in the crash and reports are that 14 still remain hospitalized. Most of the people in the bus were on their way at around 7am to work.
The truck driver survived. 36-year-old Camilo Confesor Terrero Cuevas will sit for the first court hearing of his case on Monday, 4 December 2023, at the Juzgado de Paz in Haina. The driver is under arrest at the Departamento Regional de la Policía Nacional de San Cristóbal, better known as “Cárcel de la 17”.
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4 December 2023