A collision between a semi-semi-trailer and an SUV carrying 25 people, occurred on the morning of the March near the front between the United States and Mexico, dejó al menos 13 muertos y 12 heridos, inform the authorities of the imperial district, in California.
The head of the city’s Patrol Patrol, Omar Watson, said 12 people had been killed and another failed to enter the Regional Medical Center.
“Obviamente que ese vehicula no debía llevar a tanta gente“, dijo Watson.
The police officer informs in a press release that the identity of the victims and the migratory status between them is unknown haoi menores de edad.
Aggregate that local authorities are working with the Mexican Consulate to determine identities and log in contact with families. The official did not elaborate on whether the people involved in the accident were all Mexican nationality. The investigations are ongoing.
“It was an unusual amount of people in a van, but we do not know who we are“, said Macario Mora, spokesman for the Office of the Aduanas and Fronteriza Protection (CBP, for its seals in English) in Yuma and El Centro.
About the causes of the accident, Watson indicated that he has the moment it was announced that the exact same thing happened. It is not clear if the van was detonated in a high-altitude signal to cross the truck’s truck, the police officer said.
The pickup truck is the loading bay of the van provoking that it is the carriage of the carrier. Los iban a bordo salieron arrojados del carro por el voldo el impacto.
The Bomberos Department of the Imperial Condo and the Emergency Services Officer of the city responded to the “mortal incident” at 6:15 p.m.
The accident occurred at the intersection of Highway 115 and Norrish Road. A rural state and the purest of California is about 10 millas all the Centro y 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of the Mexican Front, according to Juan Rodelo, chief of the police department’s battalion.
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“There are 27 passengers in this van who are shocked by a serious truck,” said the director general of the emergency room, Judy Cruz, in a video from Facebook Live.
Of the total number of victims, four of them were transported by helicopter to the Regional Medical Center, where a failure occurred. The other persons will be admitted to three different hospitals.
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“The patients, by supuesto, are at one moment having a difficult time, as if they could imagine”, continues the doctor Adolphe Edward, executive director of the hospital. “It’s a serious accident. We are waiting in the emergency room,” he added.
Cruz reports that the hospital has provided air travel to other agencies to transport three patients to other facilities.
At the top of the road, there are at least 15 social workers and five bomb trucks, at Highway 115, just north of Holtville, following the authorities. A zoomed helicopter in the high altitude Flowers respond to questions about the accident. Highway 115 is currently blocked north of Holtville.
More information on CNN and Los Angeles Times.