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Driver over corrects steering bus down Tulum highway embankment

Tulum, Q.R. — Two people were left injured after the driver of their staff bus left the highway Monday. The accident was reported a few kilometers from the Kaan Luum lagoon in the municipality of Tulum Monday morning.

Driver over corrects steering bus down Tulum highway embankment

The driver of the hotel staff bus went off the road and crashed into a tree, leaving two people on the bus with undisclosed injuries. Both were taken to a Tulum hospital by ambulance.

According to information gathered at the scene, the vehicle involved was a bus belonging to the Federal Public Transportation Service. The bus was transporting workers from Felipe Carrillo Puerto to a hotel near the town of Chemuyil in the municipality of Tulum at the time of the crash.

The vehicle was located by police approximately four kilometers south of the Kaan Luum lagoon.

The driver of the bus told police he over corrected while attempting to avoid another vehicle. That over correction forced him off the road and down a small embankment into a tree.