{"id":147975,"date":"2020-10-07T05:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T09:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=147975"},"modified":"2020-10-07T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:37:02","slug":"bus-accident-on-samana-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/10\/07\/bus-accident-on-samana-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus accident on Samana road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autobus-accidentado-Hoy-e1602088611227.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148038\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Details are trickling in on a major accident in Samana province. As reported 17 of 25 passengers on a tour bus were injured when the driver lost control and the bus slid down a cliff. No fatalities are reported. The road patrol and emergency services were promptly at the site. Seven ambulances transported nine injured to nearby hospitals. The accident occurred at around 9:34am. As reported, most of the victims were Venezuelan tourists living in Santo Domingo who were on an excursion to the El Limon waterfall. They were traveling on the little-traveled S\u00e1nchez to El Lim\u00f3n road that has dangerous curves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported, units from the firemen, National Police, General Traffic and Transit Safety Agency (Digesett), and the Ministry of Public Works assisted the victims of the accident on the Majagual-Batey Las Hormigas stretch of the Samana-Sanchez road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video shared on N Digital reports that none of the passengers suffered serious injuries. The bus in which they were traveling overturned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/10\/06\/17-heridos-en-accidente-de-transito-en-samana\/\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/nuevos-detalles-del-accidente-de-transito-en-samana-donde-17-turistas-resultaron-heridos\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/n.com.do\/2020\/10\/06\/accidente-ocurrido-en-carretera-sanchez-samana-deja-17-heridos\/\">N Digital<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 October 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details are trickling in on a major accident in Samana province. As reported 17 of 25 passengers on a tour bus were injured when the driver lost control and the bus slid down a cliff. No fatalities are reported. The road patrol and emergency services were promptly at the site. Seven ambulances transported nine injured &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/10\/07\/bus-accident-on-samana-road\/\" 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\/147975"}],"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=147975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148039,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147975\/revisions\/148039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}