Q COSTARICA — One fatality and three critically injured was the result of a massive multiple collision between a bus and five vehicles Sunday afternoon in Tárcoles.
According to the Costa Rican Red Cross, several people were ejected from the collision and fell approximately 50 meters into a cliff. In the incident occurring around 4 pm, another person was taken to the Monseñor Sanabria Hospital in urgent condition, and two more injured people were transferred to the Jacó Clinic in stable condition.
More than 30 people were treated in total, according to Red Cross regional operations coordinator Jorge Matamoros.
Matamoros reported that more than 60 Red Cross personnel, more than ten ambulances, two rescue trucks, and two operational vehicles were deployed for this emergency.
The Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) issued a statement Monday morning regarding the fatal traffic accident, which detailed the cause of the incident.
According to the report, a bus traveling from Jacó to Orotina, while descending a slope in the area of Caletas, apparently lost its brakes and lost control, causing a multiple collision with several vehicles traveling in the opposite direction, resulting in one death, that of a 22-year-old man named Sebastián Barrantes Solano, son of Marisol Solano, deputy mayor of the Municipality of Garabito, who was apparently traveling in a pickup truck.
