A vehicle crashed into several commercial establishments, including a bakery, in the upper part of Villavicencio, Buenavista.. The accident occurred on the night of January 29. According to preliminary information, there are many injured and 2 dead.
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According to known images, the white minibus took away chairs, display cases and other elements of commercial establishments where people were shopping.
He walked into a bakery and a supermarket. While a woman died while the vehicle was passing, the woman’s husband, two other women and a cyclist were seriously injured.
“Everything happened very quickly. Ambulances have already arrived. There are deaths and that’s what hurts society. It hurts because they are people on the sidewalk. Maybe lives are being lost due to people driving with alcohol in their bodies.” said a council member from district 2 on the local news program. notillano.com.
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“It’s terrible… Even finding bottle containers in the car,” the woman added, after examining the minibus involved in the incident.
In principle, Citizens who are neighbors of the sector prevented the driver from being taken away.He justified himself by claiming that he had a health problem that caused him to lose control.
Upon the insistence of the surrounding people and the presence of uniformed police teams, a breathalyzer test was performed on the man at the scene of the accident. “It doesn’t!” and “breeze good!” those present demanded. Eventually, he was escorted and transferred by authorities to provide information about what had happened.
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Villavicencio Mayor Yanit Jara regretted the accident in which two people lost their lives.
“We take care that the authorities take the necessary legal action to investigate the time, manner and circumstances of the place,” he said.
While the injured were taken to clinical centers in the capital Meta, judicial authorities and Traffic Police launched an investigation to determine the causes of the accident.
8,405 people died in crashes in Colombia between January and December 2023, according to the latest data from the National Highway Safety Agency. Of these, 5,213 were motorcycle drivers and 1,772 were pedestrians, making them the road actors who lost the most lives.
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“An average of 22 people die every day in completely preventable situations. (…). The best tribute we can pay to those who passed away as a result of a traffic accident is to protect life on the road. Never forget that a bad decision can change the course of our existence in a minute,” commented National. Mariantonia Tabares Pulgarín, director general of the Highway Safety Agency, at a past incident.
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