MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS ON THE RISE

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Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Guazapa section, assisted three people early this morning who were injured when two motorcycles collided at kilometer 14 and a half of the Carretera Troncal del Norte.

Two units were involved in the motorcycle accident, when one of the drivers failed to notice and collided with the second, which was attempting to enter Colonia Popotlán, in Apopa.

Two people were traveling on one motorcycle and suffered trauma to different parts of their bodies, while the third driver sustained lacerations.

Rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, in Guazapa, assisted the three victims and provided them with pre-hospital care at the scene of the accident.

The victims were identified as William Emmanuel Mejía Bermúdez, 25; Gerson Adonis Martínez Hernández, 27; and Edenilson Geovanny Mirando Rodríguez, 25.

Authorities from the Observatorio Nacional de Seguridad Vial state that, during the recently concluded year 2023, the number of motorcycle accidents was 3,241, of which 491 caused the deaths of people.

So far this year, Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador has assisted approximately seven motorcyclists who suffer traffic accidents and are admitted to different healthcare centers in the country.