Cell phones, alcohol, speeding, linked to carnival highway carnage

CELL PHONE usage joined alcohol consumption and speeding as a major causeof 136 traffic accidents resulting in 10 deaths in 24 hours during Carnival 2016 says the Transport Authority ATTT.

This, said the  Authority was  in spite  of enormous  efforts by a special task force  of the National Police(PN) the ATTT and   the Civil Defense (Sinaproc) to  preserve lives  of the population.

Last year in the four days of Carnival, there were 12 deaths.