The spokesman for the National Police, Diego Pesqueira, reported on Sunday night that delivered to the authorities driver of the truck that hit a crowd in the Bastidas community, in Las Yayas de Azua, causing six deaths and 41 injured so far.
“The driver of the vehicle turned himself in to the authorities of the General Directorate of Traffic Safety and Land Transportation (Digesett) in Azua. truck Daihatsu, red, license plate L192615, who had left the scene, where he ran over a crowd early this morning that was sharing outside a liquor store, located on the Azua-San Juan highway, on the Bastidas descent, Las Yayas municipality, Azua,” he said on his X account.
It is about Angel Incarnation Bautista, who will be made available to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the next few hours, for the corresponding legal purposes.
“The man now arrested is identified as the driver of the truck that hit a group of people, causing the death of about six people. This Monday the competent authorities will offer an official report on the case,” said the police spokesman.
The accident occurred just after 1:00 a.m. A video shows the moment when the truck, which was loaded with avocados, ran over the people in the dark. The vehicle was traveling at high speed.
The National Health Service (NHS) reported in the afternoon that 41 people had been injured and were receiving treatment in two hospitals in the area.
The hospitals Alejandro Cabral, from San Juan, and Taiwan, from Azua, received 30 and 11 people, respectively, according to reports.
“From the 30’s patients assisted at the Alejandro Cabral Hospital, seven remain admittedfour of them in intensive care (ICU) and the rest in the ward. While, in Azua’s Taiwan, of the eleven patients assisted, seven were graduated and four remain admitted in stable condition,” the entity detailed.
Injuries
The injuries The most common injuries were knee trauma, abdominal wounds, tibia and fibula fractures, as well as cranial and thoracoabdominal trauma.
Those affected include women aged between 17 and 45 and men aged between 18 and 55.
The dead
The fatalities were identified such as police sergeant Jose Rene Guzman Guzman, Genesis Arias Alcantara, Deivy Ferrera Matos, John Deuvy Geraldo, Yocaira Melo Mendez, 20 years old, and Eliun Guzman Rodriguez.
