Othón P. Blanco, Q.R. — A head-on collision Saturday night between a car and truck has left six injured. The accident was reported to emergency services around 9:00 p.m. outside the town of Sergio Butrón Casas.
Municipal police were at the accident site with paramedics, military personnel and firemen. There, they located two private vehicles, a small cargo truck and car, glued together by twisted metal at their front ends down a highway embankment.
Both vehicles ended up off the highway and into shoulder brush. Firemen from Chetumal were part of the rescue team after responding paramedics located a trapped woman inside the car.
The highway embankment where the vehicles came to a rest posed a rescue challenge. Emergency personnel were at the scene for more than two-and-a-half hours trying to remove the six injured from the two involved vehicles.
Six people from between the two vehicles were transferred to Chetumal hospital. An official cause of the accident was not provided.
