On Sunday evening around 10:00 pm, the driver of a truck coming from the South lost control of his vehicle which hit a walking band of Valet, killing 2 people on the spot and injuring 7 others, according to testimony of a taxi-motorcycle. The wounded were rushed to the Notre Dame hospital of Petit-Goâve.

According to other witnesses the truck seems to have accelerated for an unknown reason just before the impact...

The number of victims was confirmed by Dr. Martial Beneche, Medical Director of Notre Dame Hospital where the wounded (whose one in a critical condition) are currently receiving the care that their condition requires.

Let's recall that in 2016, the National Ambulance Center (CAN) took care of 13,894 victims (injured and dead) resulting from 2,136 accidents across the national territory (partial balance, in December 2016 the CAN having been the victim of a strike, preventing normal operation).

HL/ HaitiLibre / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondant Petit-Goâve)