PhotoLIMA, Peru — At least 44 people died and 20 others were injured in southern Peru on Wednesday when a passenger bus fell off a cliff on the nation’s most important highway — the second such bus accident this year on the notoriously dangerous road. The two accidents prompted outrage here that the authorities are not doing enough to prevent such episodes despite their frequency and the loss of life involved. As with many highways here, the roadside is dotted with crosses memorializing where people have died in road accidents. PhotoIn that area, near the town of Ocoña, the Pan-American Highway goes along a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and then along a cliff overlooking a river, which is where Wednesday’s accident occurred. Jacqueline Choque, who leads the local office of Indeci, the civil defense agency, suggested that the driver was to blame.

Source: New York Times February 21, 2018 21:56 UTC