{"id":480743,"date":"2025-08-31T18:33:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T22:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/six-minors-in-critical-condition-after-accident-in-la-ceiba\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T22:39:42","slug":"six-minors-in-critical-condition-after-accident-in-la-ceiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/six-minors-in-critical-condition-after-accident-in-la-ceiba\/","title":{"rendered":"Six minors in critical condition after accident in La Ceiba"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>HIG\u00dcEY, La Altagracia.\u2013<\/strong> Six minors, five boys and one adolescent, are in intensive care units in critical condition following the traffic accident on the La Ceiba\u2013Otra Banda highway, Hig\u00fcey municipality, which left several people dead. The victims were returning from a religious activity.\n\nAccording to sources, the driver of the garbage truck, <strong>Jos\u00e9 Laurencio Severino<\/strong>, 47 years old, who remains in custody for investigation, <strong>tested positive on the breathalyzer test<\/strong>, with a level of 0.42 degrees, when the normal is 0.0.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/conductor-camion-accidente-veron\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"525745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truck driver who caused accident in Ver\u00f3n may have been drunk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe governor of La Altagracia, <strong>Daisy De \u00d3leo de Bastardo<\/strong>, a pediatrician by profession, reported that all medical personnel were immediately summoned to assist the affected. In a press conference, she detailed that <strong>19 people were involved<\/strong>, of whom four died at the scene and two more in the hospital.\n\nIn the <strong>General and Specialties Hospital Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de La Altagracia (HGENSA)<\/strong>, nine people were admitted; of these, two died while seven remain hospitalized, including a 17-year-old adolescent who is intubated. In the <strong>Provincial Maternal and Child Hospital Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de La Altagracia<\/strong> there are five children, between seven and 13 years old, all with polytrauma, three of them in critical condition in the intensive care unit.\n\nThe local representative of the <strong>General Directorate of Land Transit (Digesett)<\/strong> indicated that the garbage truck first hit a motorcycle and then the van that was transporting the other victims, causing the tragedy.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIG\u00dcEY, La Altagracia.\u2013 Six minors, five boys and one adolescent, are in intensive care units in critical condition following the traffic accident on the La Ceiba\u2013Otra Banda highway, Hig\u00fcey municipality, which left several people dead. The victims were returning from a religious activity. According to sources, the driver of the garbage truck, Jos\u00e9 Laurencio Severino, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":480744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41083],"class_list":["post-480743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-accidents"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-213V","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/68b486d6d80fc.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/68b486d6d80fc.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}