by Six members of a family and a passenger from a local bus died this Saturday in a brutal head-on crash between a car and a bus on a route in the Oruro region, in Bolivia. The vehicle with the smallest door had an Argentine license plate and its occupants belonged to the Bolivian community of Villa Celina, La Matanza district, according to the Télam agency.
The road accident occurred in the morning, on the so-called Pan-American route, 4 kilometers from the entrance to the town of Challapata. The Peugeot 807 with Argentine patent HKM 129 collided with a bus from the Royal Class company, which was providing services between the departments of Oruro and Potosí, in the southwest of Bolivia.
The crash destroyed the car – type van– in which family members were traveling. The sole survivors They are the driver, Carlos Portillo Vidal (34, of Argentine nationality), and a 4-year-old boy (Zaid DSL).
“The mother died while pregnant along with her family members,” sources from that country reported. “They were traveling to Uyuni for the discharge of her little brother. The car belongs to the mother’s brother, who is in intensive care,” she added.
The accident also left serious damage to the front of the bus, which ended up about 70 meters from the place of impact, as the driver maneuvered to avoid the overturn.
The six occupants of the Peugeot 807 who died instantly were identified as Jhonatan Gabriel Choque López (10), Zeida Nilda López Choque (25), Elsa Lucia López Choque (33), María Choque Vasco de López (55), Rolando López Choque . (23) and Mariluz López Choque (15), according to the report from the Challapata Provincial Directorate that local media reproduced.
Minutes after the emergency assistance, the Government of Oruro launched a campaign to find relatives of the 4-year-old boy to accompany him to the San Juan de Dios hospital where he is hospitalized. According to Oruro government personnel, the minor’s father was present.
The seventh deceased is Angélica Yoselin Cazón Rodríguez (26), a passenger on the bus. Both the driver and her companion were injured and were hospitalized, although in the common room.
The investigators’ main hypothesis is that the car invaded the opposite lane while attempting to overtake, a maneuver that led to a head-on collision with the bus that completed the route between Tarija and La Paz, the newspaper’s website reported. Homeland from Oruro.
With information from Télam
