DEAD AND INJURED IN WEEKEND ACCIDENTS

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Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador recorded the deaths of at least three people during the past weekend in different traffic accidents reported across the country.

Rescuers responded to the various road crashes, where, unfortunately, a motorcyclist who was struck by a vehicle on kilometer 14 of the Highway to Monseñor Romero International Airport had been run over and, due to the trauma he sustained, lost his life.

Meanwhile, on the highway leading from Sonsonate to San Salvador, a motorcycle driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the roadway dividers. However, when rescuers arrived at the scene of the accident, the victim was no longer showing vital signs.

In the eastern part of the country, another motorcyclist collided with a trailer truck and died instantly. The incident was recorded on the highway leading to El Tránsito in the Department of San Miguel.

On the other hand, traffic accidents have left several people injured and trapped, requiring Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador to use hydraulic equipment to free the victims and take them to various medical centers.

Volunteers from Comandos de Salvamento of Ciudad Arce assisted an elderly person who had become trapped inside the vehicle in which he was traveling near Calle Las Rejas in that Municipio.

The car’s driver lost control when the braking system failed, crashing into a tree. Members of the Vehicle Rescue Unit freed the victim so he could be taken to a hospital.

Comandos de Salvamento of Quezaltepeque assisted Mayda Beatriz Esquivel, 31, who suffered trauma in a motorcycle accident on kilometer 24.5 of the Western Pan-American Highway, near Plaza Monseñor Romero in Quezaltepeque. The victim was admitted to the Social Security hospital.

At the turnoff to San Pedro Nonualco on the old Zacatecoluca highway, Comandos de Salvamento rescuers assisted Daniel Ernesto Hernández Navarro, 23, who was involved in a motorcycle accident and was admitted to Santa Teresa Hospital due to a fracture to his right lower limb.

Comandos de Salvamento of Ilopango responded to a traffic accident on the Pan-American Highway near San Bartolo, where a couple traveling on a motorcycle were involved in a road crash and were taken to a medical center.

Members of the Vehicle Rescue Unit of Comandos de Salvamento freed Edwin Antonio Pérez Cortez, 36, who became trapped among the wreckage after his vehicle collided at 29th Calle Oriente and Avenida España in San Salvador. The victim was taken to a medical center.

On kilometer three of the Northern Trunk Highway, four people were injured, including a woman who had become trapped in one of the vehicles. The victims were taken to various medical centers.