{"id":136305,"date":"2020-02-12T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=136305"},"modified":"2020-02-12T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:56:30","slug":"dangerous-azua-road-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/dangerous-azua-road-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Azua road stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Carretera-Bani-Azua-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Carretera-Bani-Azua-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Carretera-Bani-Azua-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Transport and Transit Institute (Intrant) is focusing on ways to put a stop to the many accidents occurring on the Ban\u00ed-Azua highway in the area of El N\u00famero. The Ministry of Public Works, with experts from the Transport Agency (Digessett), expect to come up with a definite solution for prompt implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engineer Claudia Franchesca De los Santos, who is the Intrant director, says that speeding and passing is the common denominator of the many accidents. Recently another two people died in a collision with a bus on the lethal road curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We again call on citizens, please, to exercise caution on the road. An accident can happen to anyone at any time, even without you being at fault,&#8221; she said when calling for added care to avoid accidents on the roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De los Santos said that regarding city traffic congestion measures, such as changing traffic patterns in the city and organizing it, will only have an effect if drivers are careful. &#8220;90% of the accidents and situations we have in traffic have to do with the human factor,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/intrant-busca-frenar-accidentes-ocurren-en-el-numero-de-azua\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 February 2020 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Transport and Transit Institute (Intrant) is focusing on ways to put a stop to the many accidents occurring on the Ban\u00ed-Azua highway in the area of El N\u00famero. The Ministry of Public Works, with experts from the Transport Agency (Digessett), expect to come up with a definite solution for prompt implementation. Engineer Claudia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/02\/12\/dangerous-azua-road-stretch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136347,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136305\/revisions\/136347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}