Cancun, Q.R. — UPDATED: A three vehicle accident on Luis Donaldo Colosio Boulevard has left five dead and six injured. The accident was reported by the Secretary of Citizen Security (SSC) Tuesday morning heading in the direction of the Cancun International Airport.
“The Secretary of Citizen Security reports a serious accident occurred on Luis Donaldo Colosio Boulevard, heading toward the airport. The public is asked to make way for emergency crews to address the situation.
“The official report of the tragic deaths has been received. We continue to work in the area; please take precautions,” the SSC (Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana de Q.Roo) reported Tuesday.
Speed and wet pavement is being blamed on the crash that left one vehicle overturned and two others destroyed. Cancun firemen were called in to cut several trapped people free from the involved vehicles.
Power in the area was disrupted when one of the vehicles felled a concrete CFE post. National Guard were brought in to keep traffic moving through the one open lane.
Personnel from the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) were requested to upright the felled pole after a car hit its base. The impact force-ejected one passenger through the windshield of that car and onto the road. That person was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the car, a man, was left trapped behind the wheel. Firemen used the jaws of life to extract him. He was transferred to a Cancun hospital in serious condition.
According to early information, the driver of one of the vehicles was entering the city of Cancun after leaving Playa del Carmen when they lost control on the wet pavement and crossed into oncoming traffic.
In the opposite lane they hit a white Toyota vehicle. Four people from inside that vehicle were killed, two of whom, were children.
Firemen used the jaws of life to free a front seat passenger from inside that vehicle.
Four people from inside the rolled pickup truck were rushed to hospital after sustaining serious injuries. One person from inside the white Toyota was recovered alive and also transferred to hospital. Aside from an early morning SSC statement, local authorities have not commented publicly on the fatal holiday accident.
UPDATE September 17: The death toll in the Tuesday accident in Cancun has risen. The fifth person from inside the white Toyota involved in the three vehicle collision has died. The most recent deceased, an elderly man, was pulled from the wreckage alive but died in hospital.
All five from inside the Toyota were killed when their vehicle was hit by a pickup that crossed the median and entered the oncoming lane. The family in the white Toyota were in Cancun from Monterrey to attend a wedding. They were heading to the Cancun airport at the time of the accident. Three adults and two children under the age of two were killed from that vehicle.
