Category Archives: Motor V. Accidents

Motor vehicle accidents

PanAmerican Highway MVA

Patient being extricated by our staff. .

Volunteers from Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador, Ilopango section, along with other first response institutions, respond to a traffic accident that occurred early Wednesday morning on the Pan-American Highway at kilometer 25.

Around three in the morning, the rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador arrived at the scene and found a man trapped inside his vehicle, which had collided with one of the trees in the median of the highway, with the cause of the accident unknown.

The victim, identified as Will Alfredo Astovio, 55 years old, was traveling from West to East on the Pan-American Highway when the accident occurred, with him being the only occupant of the vehicle.

The rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento of El Salvador managed to free the victim, who had suffered multiple injuries, and he was subsequently taken to a medical center.

After impacting a tree, Comandos de Salvamento and Green Cross supporting the patient. 

Various MVA’s Today

CDS First Responders from Antiguo Cuscatlán attended to two patients who were involved in a crash on their motorcycles in Colonia Santa Elena. Both were secured and transported to higher level of care.

Also, early this morning, a semi truck that was traveling from San Juan Opico to the eastern part of the country and hit another truck that was transporting several people causing multiple injuries. They were on their way to cut sugarcane on the steps of the volcano.

Other responders from CDS Quezatepeque were dispatched to help more patients that suffered multiple injuries when they were victims of a hit and run by a truck that fled the scene. Seven patients were treated and immediately transported.

Immediate first aid offered on scene of one of the accidents.

ACCIDENTS CONTINUE TO RISE

Speeding, distracted driving and not abiding by traffic signs have caused an increase in MVAs throughout the country. The main locations have been along the Panamerican, Troncal del Norte, and the Gold highways within and outside San Salvador.

At 6am today a bus collided with a semi truck on the Quetzaltepeque highway north of San Salvador. This resulted in 7 injured patients  who were transported to the nearby hospitals.

Bus collision at 5:45 am.

Along the Alameda Juan Pablo II and la 20ª. Avenida Norte a motorcyclist hit a geriatric female who was stabilized in scene then transported.

CDS Apopa also dispatched a team to attend to another bus accident that crashed at high speed resulting in various injured and thankfully no DOAs. All patients were stable and transported to higher level of care .

At Cantón Zapotitán, caserío El Güineo, in El Congo, a driver of a Agriculture government vehicle lost control going over the edge of the highway .  Three occupants were supported with basic life support.

Socorristas de Comandos de Salvamento atienen a víctimas del accidente en Zapotitán.
Patients supported on scene at Troncal del Norte.

MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS INCREASE FOR 2021

Comandos de Antigua Cuscatlán attend an accident at Bulevar Luis Poma.

During the month of January 2021, CDS attended many tragic traffic accidents throughout the country. On average CDS attended to an average of five per day.  The National Transit Authority has reported more than five accidents involving motorcycles during the first five days of January.

This last Thursday morning, the Antiguo Cuscatlán CDS base dispatched a team to respond to an accident at el Blvd. Luis Poma where a car had crashed into another vehicle and then hit an electrical pole resulting in two injured. The patients were stabilized and transported to San Rafael Hospital in Santa Tecla.

Only hours later at km marker 2.5 along the Comalapa highway, a 27yo motorcyclist presented with shoulder and lower extremity injuries after being affected by a hit and run. Said patient was secured and transported to higher level of care at the nearest Social Security Hospital.

 

 

That same early morning along the Apopa highway towards Nejapa, two motorcycles got into a head on collision involving a 43yo male presenting with a fractured lower right leg and a 21yo male presenting with a clavícula and lower extremity trauma. Both were stabilized on scene and transported to higher level of care.

First Responders attend to one patient of the two motorcycle head on collision.

Also, in the interior part of the country, CDS of Berlín assisted a 23yo female who presented with pelvic trauma after colliding with another vehicle in the Dept. of Usulután.

A FULL NIGHT OF MVAs

Scene of an injured motorcyclist.

Friday night gave us quite a few EMS runs to attend to Motor Vehicle Accidents spread out across San Salvador.

Along the 10ª. Avenida Norte y la 29ª. Calle Oriente, a young 22yo Isaí Salomón Batres knocked off his bike and luckily with a helmet on only suffered minor injuries and was attended on scene by our EMTs.

A four year old is brought to Childrens Bloom Hospital.

Minutos después sobre la 10ª. Avenida Norte y la 11ª. Calle Oriente una ambulancia del Hospital Nacional de San Francisco Gotera, Morazán, colisionó contra un vehículo de alquiler, dejando al menos cinco personas lesionadas entre ellos ambos conductores.

Only minutes after, an ambulance from the National hospital in San Francisco Gotera Morazan crashed into another car causing at least 5 injured including a 4 year old boy.

Shortly after that along the Troncal del Norte highway near KM marker 10, a male was DOA due to being ran over.

Ambulance vs Taxi was only one of the scenes attended to this Friday night.