A traffic accident in which an ambulance hit two other vehicles left 12 people injured in the province of Villa Clara.
According to the information shared on social networks, the incident took place this Sunday, March 12, on the highway in the municipality of Sagua La Grande.
The accident occurred after the other two cars did not give way to the emergency vehicle.
The vehicles involved in the accident ended up severely damaged. (Screenshot: Alexander Morffis-Facebook) According to state journalist Henry Omar Pérez, 11 of the injured were adults, while one was a minor.
The communicator’s publication emphasizes that the minor is out of danger, while the patient who was already traveling in the ambulance, identified as 80-year-old Elena Hernández Sosa, was admitted to intensive care at the Celestino Hernández Clinical Surgical Hospital.
The old woman’s companion, Ania Ramírez Hernández, 50, suffered a head trauma, as well as a frontal epicranial wound and a slight effusion on the right side.
The journalist points out that Ramírez was ordered to undergo an exploratory laparotomy to undergo angiology surgery.
Witnesses point out that the woman was taken seriously injured from under the ambulance after the accident.
For his part, the ambulance driver was identified as José Luis Vega Pérez, 54 years old, and the doctor on board was José Carlos Pérez, 53, both of whom did not suffer injuries despite the spectacular crash.
Also traveling in the ambulance was nurse Randi Alonso Pedrasa, 41, who also did not experience serious injuries, for which reason, like the driver and the doctor, he was placed under observation.
Eight people were traveling in the other two cars, six of whom were identified: Yuniel Collazo Méndez, 33, who suffered rib fractures and is under observation; Yilka Manso Hernández, 45, without injuries and under observation; Noelia Hernández Díaz, 56, who did not suffer serious injuries; Julio Ernesto González Martínez, 28, who is admitted to intensive care; Félix Luis Hernández Hernández, 38, who did not present injuries and Alexander Castillo Quintana, 49, who did not present injuries and is under observation.
