TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS HAVE LEFT 19 DEAD

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During the Holy Week vacation season, authorities from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador and Protección Civil confirm the deaths of at least 19 people in the traffic accidents that have been recorded.

Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador has responded to several traffic accidents through this Holy Saturday, one of them occurring on the Northern Trunk Highway, at kilometer four and a half, where the driver of an automobile lost control and crashed into the railing of a pedestrian overpass.

In the traffic accident, a woman was injured while attempting to assist the driver, suffering injuries to part of her left upper limb and trauma to her right leg, so she was taken to a medical center.

Meanwhile, on San Bartolo Boulevard, Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Ilopango branch, are assisting a motorcyclist who suffered a traffic accident.

Roberto Cruz, Executive Director of Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, states that traffic accidents have increased, and therefore asks drivers to respect traffic signs, not become distracted at the wheel, and not drive at excessive speed, since there are still two days left before the vacation season ends.

For his part, Protección Civil Director Luis Amaya confirmed that, so far, traffic accidents total more than 300, of which more than 180 people have been injured.

Likewise, he states that four people have died by drowning, one of them in the Lago de Ilopango area, Apulo area, where the body of a man was recovered.