2023-05-02 00:13:53
The deceased are seven men and eleven women, and among the injured are at least a dozen minors, according to federal authorities.
At least 20 people died and 33 were injured after a tour bus plunged into a ravine in the western Mexican state of Nayarit.
The deceased people are seven men and eleven women, and among the injured are at least a dozen minors, according to federal authorities.
The vehicle, which it was heading from the city of Guadalajara to the tourist beach area located in Rincón de Guayabitos, 260 kilometers away, it suffered a mechanical failure that caused it to run off the road.
“We had the accident of a bus from a private company that was transporting tourists from Guadalajara (Jalisco, west) to the tourist destination of Guayabitos,” said the director of Citizen Protection and Fire Department, Pedro Núñez.
The official added that the full identity of the victims is expected, after assuring that all “were national tourists.”
“At least 18 people died in a road accident that occurred in Mexico,” Mundo UR Web reported on his Twitter account, posting a photo of the accident.
For its part, the Nayarit Attorney General’s Office reported that it indicated the first investigations with information provided by the passengers and that collected by the Criminal Investigation Agency, the event occurred due to mechanical damage.
“Having received information via the radio booth that a private tour bus fell into a ravine approximately 15 meters to the bottom at the aforementioned location, The Attorney General’s Office began the first investigations with the information provided by the passengers themselves and that collected by elements of the Criminal Investigation Agency who met at the scene of the mishap,” the agency said.
In another publication, in which the information was updated, he detailed the identity of nine of the people who lost their lives in the accident:
Cecilia González, 49 years old, Alexis Geovani de León Salazar, 27 years old, Montserrat Rojas Castillo, 22 years old, Emigidio Balderas Romero, 23 years old, Felix Lucía, 20 years old, Moisés Aparicio Gascón, 31 years old, David Aparicio García, from 32 years old, Pedro Arreola Torres, 50 years old and Gabriela Chávez Jiménez, 50 years old.
“Regarding the progress of the investigation, taking into account the findings at the scene of the event, as well as the physical verification by a mechanical expert of the damaged vehicle, it was possible to determine that the event occurred as a result of a failure in the brakes, by find a hose out of place, “he said.
Likewise, the Prosecutor indicated that The injured people were transferred to different care centers in the region. He also indicated that he will continue working to identify the fatalities of the incident, which have not yet been confirmed. On the other hand, he commented that he has worked in coordination with other state entities.
“From the first minute, we have worked in a coordinated manner with the different state and federal authorities to give immediate attention to the victims of this act,” he said.
The unfortunate traffic incident occurred in the kilometer 59 of the federal highway 200 Tepic Puerto Vallarta, at the height of the town of Mesillas.
For his part, the mayor of Guadalajara, Pablo Lemus, said that his cabinet “remains attentive to the needs of the families affected by the accident.”
The official said that he is working in coordination with the Jalisco authorities “to care for and transfer those affected by the tragic accident.”
Accidents on Mexican highways, especially trucks and buses, have become common occurrences in that country,
In 2021, the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) reported that the country ranked seventh worldwide and third in Latin America in deaths from road accidents.
Every day there is an average of 22 deaths of young people between the ages of 15 and 29 and 24,000 deaths per year on average, according to the agency.
Road accidents are the first cause of death in young people between the ages of 5 and 29 and the fifth among the general population, according to the organization.
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