A serious road accident has shocked residents of Melgar. A Mazda CX60 vehicle fell into a cliff on the road from this municipality to Carmen de Apicalá in Tolima and exploded after reaching the bottom of the cliff.
According to the first information released by the authorities, at least two people died in a traffic accident that occurred at 23.40 on December 31, when the country said goodbye to 2023.
(More information: Road tragedy in Melgar: car crashed into cliff and exploded, two killed)
One of the victims responded to the name of Andrés Felipe Euse Guzmán, who had a medical card and was traveling with a woman who also died. Also at the scene was a dog that authorities believe was the victims’ pet, which they named Mia.
The emergency occurred on the Apicalá bridge, on the Melgar-Carmen road in Apicalá, Tolima, when the car fell into the abyss for unknown reasons.
Journalist Óscar Noreña from Melgar municipality, who was at the scene, said: “There were two people in the car, and after it fell into the cliff, it exploded, caught fire and consumed the people in the flames.”
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The end of the year was marked by traffic accidents in different parts of the country.
The event that had the biggest impact was the crash and subsequent fire of a tanker truck in the Quebrada Blanca tunnel in Guayabetal, Cundinarmarca, last week; It protects the road to Llano with special operations and some closures. The truck driver, who was seriously injured, died.
Also on the Llano road, an accident involving another vehicle was recorded in the Boquerón tunnel on 31 December. “Category 1 vehicle, apparently without brakes, crashed into the tunnel wall. Authorities and personnel involved in the situation,” they said from the Coviandina dealership.
(Also: New closure on Llano road recorded after accident in Boquerón tunnel)
There was also a road tragedy in La Guajira. 1 person died and 3 people were injured in a traffic accident on the Troncal del Caribe highway.In the Riohacha – Maicao section, an inter-departmental transport bus ran over a pedestrian after leaving the road and overturned.
Moreover, In Cesar, two children were burned to death and two adults were injured when a car caught fire in Chiriguana’s jurisdiction.César mining area.
The accident occurred this Friday, when the family was traveling in a private vehicle with license plate UHL302, which caught fire on the road connecting the town of La Aurora to the Chiriguana junction.
Likewise, on the morning of Friday, December 30, a traffic accident was recorded on the road between Antioquia and the Atlantic Coast, located in the jurisdiction of Valdivia.
The bus, covering the Medellín-Caucasus route in the region known as Alto de Ventas, overturned on the road with 42 people on board.
DUVÁN ALVAREZ
NATION Editorial – EL TIEMPO
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