TRUCK CRASHES INTO TRAILER IN QUELEPA

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Victims of a traffic accident in Quelepa, SAn Miguel, are taken to a medical facility.

Once again, another traffic accident was reported this afternoon on the Pan-American Highway near the Quelepa and Usulután detour, where two people were seriously injured.

Responders from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Ayutuxtepeque branch, who were providing coverage at an evangelistic event, responded to the road accident on the Pan-American Highway in the direction from San Miguel to San Salvador, at around two thirty in the afternoon this Friday.

The truck driver collided with the rear of the trailer, which was traveling in the same direction. The actual causes of the collision, which left its two occupants with severe trauma, are unknown.

The volunteers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador intervened promptly to free and stabilize the injured people. The victims were identified as Miguel González, 48, and Alejandro Figueroa, 26.

Both injured people were taken to San Juan de Dios Hospital in the eastern city of San Miguel.

Meanwhile, responders from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Ciudad Arce branch, assisted a motorcyclist who suffered injuries in an accident on Calle of Cantón Flor Amarilla. The victim was stabilized and taken to a medical facility.

Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador assisted Oswaldo Zánchez, 26, a young motorcyclist who was struck by a motor vehicle in Barrio San Esteban of Ciudad Delgado. He was admitted to a hospital.

Tonight, volunteers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador and Protección Civil are assisting a person struck by a sedan while attempting to cross Calle 5 de noviembre and the Northern Trunk Highway in the capital.