Lázaro Cárdenas, Q.R. — At least one person was injured in a bus crash in the municipality of Lázaro Cárdenas Sunday. Tourists on the Cancun bus heading for Chichén Itzá were seen along a section of highway outside the Quintana Roo town of Tintal.
The single vehicle accident was reported Sunday morning by bus passengers who crawled out through broken windows from the ditch where the bus came to a stop. In the video, none of the passengers appeared to have major injuries.
However, videos taken at the scene show an unconscious driver still behind the wheel of his bus. One of the passengers, who tried to wake him, calls for medical help while others attend to the remaining passengers still on the bus.
A second bus from the same company eventually arrived. It is not known if the group carried onward to their destination of Chichén Itzá or were returned to their starting point in Cancun.
From at-the-scene videos, the driver of the bus appears to have plowed through a metal guard rail and into the highway ditch taking out several trees along the way. The front of the bus was completely destroyed in the crash.
A cause for the accident has not been reported by police.
The accident is reported to have happened around 9:00 a.m. Sunday morning as the driver, who was transporting Cancun tourists to the archaeological zone of Chichén Itzá in the neighboring state of Yucatan, lost control and veered off the highway.
The accident happened past the town of Leona Vicario in the municipality of Puerto Morelos but before the town of El Tintal at the toll booth in the Quintana Roo municipality of Lázaro Cárdenas on the Cancún-Valladolid stretch of highway.
The SPC (Secretaría de Protección Civil, Prevención de Riesgos y Bomberos) of Solidaridad briefly reported on the incident late Sunday confirming no injured passengers, only an injured bus driver.
“We assisted in a vehicle accident in which a bus went off the road. We provided road safety assistance while firefighters extracted the injured driver, who was taken by Red Cross paramedics to a medical center.”
