Peru bus crash leaves 18 dead as vehicle plunges into 164ft ravine | World | News
Authorities said on Friday, a bus traveling from the Peruvian capital of Lima to the Amazon region was overthrown on a highway on the Andes Mountains and at least 18 people were killed and 48 people were injured. Junin Health Director Clifor Curipaco told journalists, a dual -storey bus belonging to the company “Expresso Molina Leader Internacional”, and a slope fell in the Palca region of Junin region.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. Local television videos showed that the bus was divided into two, while the firefighters and the police tried to save the wounded. It was not the first deadly bus accident in 2025, on January 3, another bus fell into the river and six people were killed and 32 were injured.
A study by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office found that the driver’s recklessness and excessive speed were the main causes of accidents in Peru.
Highway transportation is weakly monitored by the authorities in Peru, and emergency assistance is very slow and scattered.
According to the official data of the Death Information System, there was about 3,173 deaths in 2024 due to traffic accidents in the South American country.
Last September, a bus carrying tourists from Machu Picchu made it the emergence of a flat set and dozens of wounded.
The vehicle fell approximately 50 feet after losing the control of the driver while wandering a vibrating mountain road in the Mountains.
A year ago, four tourists died in 2022, and a minibus returning from the same area was injured when a cliff fell down 330 meters down.
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