Video shows bus plunging off ‘world’s most dangerous road’
Posted at 03:42 PM ET, 01/05/2012
Video shows bus plunging off ‘world’s most dangerous road’
By Elizabeth Flock
An estimated 200 to 300 lives are claimed in accidents every year on the world’s most dangerous road, a 40-mile pass in Bolivia stretching from the capital of La Paz to the resort town of Coroico.
This past week, video footage captured one of those horrific accidents, showing a bus carefully edging along a pass until it suddenly slips and plunges off the cliff into a ravine.
The Camino de la Muerte (or Road of Death, as it was dubbed in the 1980s) appears muddy in a YouTube video uploaded by an account registered as 007Comfort. The account holder writes that the driver was alone on the bus and did not realize how close the back wheels were to the precipice.
The bus fell more than 160 feet down the ravine, killing the driver, who had reportedly unloaded his passengers before heading down the treacherous pass.
More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/camino-de-la-muerte-new-video-shows-bus-plunging-off-worlds-most-dangerous-road-video/2012/01/05/gIQAEmoGdP_blog.html
Can't bear to look at the video, the story is unbearable. That driver shouldn't have had to die over this horrible road. As we were told a year or more before now, that road was built by Paraguayan prisoners of war long ago in a war between the two countries.
