The unfortunate event that occurred at dawn today on the Troncal de Occidente highway, in the sector known as Loma de Piedra in Turbaco, left three people dead. Two were women and a 56-year-old adult: one of the victims is Isabel Sofía Monterrosa Devoz, 11 years old; the graduate in Spanish Language, Keren Montes Osorio, approximately 27 years old and the employee of the Technological University of Bolívar, Widil Acnove Cárdenas Barrios, 56 years old. Read here: Video: 11-year-old girl, among the 3 dead left by an accident in Turbaco
The Highway Police is investigating the causes of this road accident that occurred at 5 this morning, but the main hypothesis is a failure in the brake system of the Bioger SA company’s garbage compactor truck, which hit the Turbaco bus, which carried passengers to Cartagena.
The Turbaco bus left from the Altos de Plan Parejo neighborhood. When he was going through the Loma de Piedra sector, on the Troncal highway, he was hit by the compactor truck.
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‘Isa’ was an outgoing, cheerful girl with a sweet smile that infected those she knew and those she didn’t. She loves making Tik-Tok videos and would share them with her friends during her leisure time.
Leaving Turbaco, from the San Pedro neighborhood, for her school in Cartagena, from Monday to Friday, Soledad Acosta de Samper, was one of her greatest satisfactions. She loved to study and was very cool. Read here: Yeinis was killed by hitmen in Bazurto in an attack that was not against her
This morning, accompanied by her older sister, Sheyla, who is 25 years old, she left with the hope of learning more and sharing with her classmates.
On that same bus was Keren Montes Osorio, who lived in Altos de Plan Parejo and who was one of the first to take the inter-municipal bus. The young woman, a graduate in Spanish Language from the University of Cartagena, was on her way to her place of work.
However, the tragedy for them and the nearly 40 passengers who boarded the Turbaco bus this morning got in their way. The event occurred in the sector known as Loma de Piedra, on the Troncal de Occidente highway.
Widil Arnover Cárdenas Barrios took the bus very close to where Isabel Sofía lived. None of them knew each other, but today the tragedy unites these relatives in the midst of deep pain.
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A version that is being investigated by the Highway Police reports that when the public service vehicle, with plates SMG-755, was going down the “Turbaco hill” it was hit in the back by a garbage collection compactor truck (ZVC-601), from the company Bioger SA
The tragedy and despair began immediately for the occupants and those who were behind these vehicles.
The impact was so great that the bus, with all its occupants, was dragged towards the separating railings of the dual carriageway. After what would be a failure in the brake system, the garbage truck was left on its right with the front end destroyed.
Isabel Sofía, Keren and Widil died instantly in that tragic event and more than 30 were left with injuries.
General Nicolás Zapata Restrepo, commander of the Cartagena Metropolitan Police, explained one of the hypotheses: “According to the preliminary version of the driver, due to a mechanical failure he collided with the public service bus, leaving three people dead at the scene. facts,” the officer said.