Fifteen people are dead and 47 are being treated for their
injuries after a bus carrying holiday season tourists flipped on a
highway in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Nayarit, authorities
said Saturday, Trend reports citing ABC News.
Officials in the nearby state of Guanajuato said all the
passengers were from the same city, Leon, in that state. It is not
unusual for friends, relatives or neighbors in Mexico to pool their
money to rent a bus for beach vacations.
Prosecutors in Nayarit said the accident occurred Friday, on a
rural stretch of road. They said the dead included at least four
children.
Local media said the travelers were returning from Guayabitos, a
beach town north of Puerto Vallarta.
The causes of the crash were under investigation. Forty five of
the injured were being treated at local hospitals, and there was no
immediate information on the condition of the wounded.
In the past, such crashes have often been caused by poor
maintenance of rental buses, bad weather or highway conditions, or
speeding.
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