A catastrophic accident occurred in the western part of Mexico yesterday morning when a bus misjudged a curve, slid, and plunged into a ravine located in the Nayarit area. The tragedy resulted in the loss of a minimum of 18 lives while a further 20 individuals were injured.
The bus was travelling with people from totally different nations together with India, Dominica, and several African nations. State officials revealed the bus was en path to the town of Tijuana in Baja California, carrying around 42 passengers.
Officials confirmed that at least 18 people died when the passenger bus careened off a freeway into a ravine early yesterday. They added that the passengers were principally foreigners and some have been heading for the US-Mexico border when the accident occurred.
The bus driver survived and was subsequently arrested, and an investigation is currently underway. Police suspect the cause of the accident to be excessive pace resulting in the lack of management on the bend and catastrophic dive into the ravine which is over forty metres deep, reported Reuters.
Road accidents are a typical sight in Mexico; just final month, another collision involving a passenger bus within the southern state of Veracruz noticed 29 fatalities. And earlier Secret in February, a collision in central Mexico claimed the lives of 17 passengers travelling in a bus carrying migrants from South America and Central America.
The details of the accident were offered by Jorge Benito Rodriguez, Nayarit’s safety and civil safety secretary. He defined that the rescue mission was particularly gruelling as a outcome of the bus got here to relaxation almost forty metres down the street after the accident.
The bus driver has been detained, the Nayarit state authorities stated in a press release, with authorities suspecting him of speeding spherical a bend within the street. Officials mentioned they were still working to determine those that had died.
The car involved was from the Elite passenger line and crashed close to Barranca Blanca, on the highway outside the state capital, Tepic..