A truck driver and his son, living in Yucatán, lost their lives aboard the heavy unit when it fell into a ravine in the Cumbres de Maltrata highway, in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
The accident occurred on Wednesday, June 26. However, the identification of the victims was not revealed until Friday the 28th. They are the driver Nelson Lenin Delgado Rojas, 44 years old, and Oris Nelson Delgado Aguilar, a 17-year-old student. Both are natives of Campeche but live in the Piedra de Agua neighborhood, Umán.
According to press reports, the accident occurred on the 150D Puebla-Orizaba highway, at kilometer 235, right where the last emergency ramp is located. The trailer with a flatbed semi-trailer, with license plate number 52AY3M, descended from the peaks loaded with tons of lime, shortly before 10 in the morning.
At that moment the heavy vehicle would have had a mechanical failure that left it without brakes, so the driver entered the emergency ramp. However, it failed to stop the unit, so it was thrown into a ravine more than 50 meters deep.
When it fell into the unevenness, the car broke down and among the twisted iron and the destroyed merchandise, the bodies of the driver from Ciudad del Carmen and his son born in Champotón were found. It was announced that the death of both was instantaneous due to head trauma.
The wife and mother of the deceased went before the staff of the Prosecutor’s Office in Orizaba, Veracruz, to identify and claim the bodies of their loved ones, to transport them for burial in Pixoyal, Campeche.
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