Comuintario
Authorities make operational to intercept overloaded buses entering municipalities adjacent to the capital.
Overloaded bus was intercepted in zone 6 of the capital. (Free Press Photo: Amílcar Montejo video capture)
The General Directorate of Transportation reported that this Friday, March 7, it makes operational to prevent extra -urban bus accidents.
He added that the inter -institutional operation takes place in Diagonal 13 and 14 avenue in zone 6 of the capital.
He added that they have imposed three fines of Q3 thousand each to exceed the number of passengers authorized on the operation card, this based on the Regulation for the provision of the Public Passenger Transportation Public Service by road.
Amílcar Montejo, road spokesman for the Municipal Traffic Police, indicated that operations are in order to reduce overloaded buse risks.
He added that some users are at risk when traveling in the buses of the buses.
“Many people were lowered from extra -urban transport grills and others hanging on the external structures in bus doors,” Montejo added.
He added that they seek to avoid accidents like the one that occurred on February 10, when 54 people lost their lives in a bus accident under the Belize bridge.
To read more: the faces of the tragedy, after the accident, under the Belize bridge