A large truck transporting beer lost control at 9 am yesterday while transiting from west to east near Km. 3-1/2 of the Prolongación Avenida 27 de Febrero. The chauffeur tried to avoid crashing into a construction roller in front. After swerving to the right, it crashed into a wall of the Shell Gasoline station, bounced and hit the roller that then hit a small Toyota minibus, which at the moment was picking up 38-year old lawyer Bautista Araujo, who was killed instantly. The gasoline station erupted in flames, and the consecuences were not worse due to the safety provision of the administration of the station that closed the gasoline valves. Some 18 units of the Fire Department participated in the operation to quickly extinguish the flames. General Hugo Adolfo Arriaga Félix, of the Fire Department, said the city of Santo Domingo does not have the capacity to handle two similar situations of this nature at the same time.
