FIVE INJURED WHEN PICKUP TRUCK CRASHES INTO TRAILER

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Early this morning, rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Lourdes, Colón section, were alerted about a traffic accident that occurred on the Pan-American Highway near Ateos.

The people were traveling in a pickup truck when they lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the rear of a trailer that was parked along the roadside of the highway leading from Lourdes to Ateos.

The pickup truck driver was trapped, requiring hydraulic equipment to be used by personnel from Bomberos Nacionales and the Red Cross Rescue Unit to free him. He was subsequently taken to a medical center for the injuries he sustained.

Meanwhile, two minors were taken to a medical center in the first moments by PNC personnel. The other victims, with various traumas, were admitted to Hospital San Rafael in Santa Tecla.

Elsewhere, this morning the driver of a vehicle crashed into the rear of a bus on route 102 that had stopped at kilometer 21 of the highway from the Port of La Libertad to Santa Tecla.

The victim, assisted by rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento de Zaragoza, was identified as José Mario Portillo Pérez, 54, who suffered several traumas and was therefore admitted to Hospital San Rafael in Santa Tecla as an emergency.