Seven were killed and one injured in minibus accident in Bolivia

The accident happened on a mountain road at 20 km. from La Paz, where the minibus was returning from the village Karanavi (Caranavi). "On accident survivor said 26 year-old passenger, to whom got to get out of the canyon on the road. Arriving medical personnel abstracted death seven people ", – announced on the radio Torres Bolivian radio station Erbol. As a preparatory version of the driver fell asleep at the wheel of a van. Many roads in the Bolivian Andes are considered critically dangerous. Elevation they range from 1.2 thousand to 4.5 thousand meters and a width of some line meters. Almost absolute lack of access barriers, the abundance of steep cliffs, bad and the vague illusion of showers plane makes all the conditions for avtoavariynyh environments. Last year the government powers to tighten sanctions for drivers who are guilty of solid car accidents due to alcohol – and already they are vulnerable to human life sentence. According to official statistics, every year in Bolivia are killed in road accident near thousand. Nearly 40 thousand injured, and injuries, of which 5 thousand remain paralyzed for life.