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TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS INCREASE DURING THE HOLIDAY PERIOD
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Alarming increases in traffic accidents have been recorded during the first days of the Holy Week holiday period, in which people have already died and more than one hundred people have been injured.
Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador has responded in recent hours to several road accidents where specialized personnel and equipment have had to be used to free people who became trapped.
One of the cases involved a driver who crashed into the rear of a truck that was parked on the highway from Sonsonate to San Salvador, at kilometer 47 near Cantón Los Lagartos.
At around two in the morning, Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador responded to the accident scene, where the driver of the automobile, still alive, called for help after becoming trapped among the twisted metal.
Members of the Rescue Unit of Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, from Ciudad Arce, and pre-hospital care rescuers worked for several minutes to free the victim with the assistance of the Cuerpo de Bomberos.
The volunteers of Comandos de Salvamento de Sonsonate urgently took Armando Baltazar Sosa Parada, 59, originally from San Juan Opico, to a medical facility.
Meanwhile, Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Chinameca branch, assisted victims of a traffic accident that occurred in Cantón Boquerón, where a pickup truck carrying at least seven people overturned on the main street.
The volunteers transported the following people to Nueva Guadalupe Hospital: Melvin Leonel González, 22; Flavia Mejía, 42; Emily Vanesa Mejía, 21; Estefany Alessandra Mejía, 19; and Elvira Lisbeth Flores, 15.
The Quezaltepeque branch of Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador assisted a woman who was involved in a motorcycle accident on Retonda Monseñor Romero.
The rescuers provided pre-hospital assistance to a 20-year-old woman who suffered minor head trauma, so she was stabilized and taken to Fosalud Quezaltepeque.
Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador urges drivers to remain calm, not exceed speed limits, obey traffic signs, and not drive after consuming alcoholic beverages.
