Posted on 03/12/2017 12:06:28 PM PDT by rdl6989
At least 34 people were killed and 17 injured in northern Haiti late on Saturday after a bus crashed into a parade of pedestrians, the country’s civil protection authorities said on Sunday.
The bus, which was coming from Cap Haitien to the capital, Port-au-Prince, crashed into a “rara” parade in the town of Gonaives in the northern part of the country, authorities said.
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No worries Clintons Global Rescue is on the way with two big boxs of bandaids and a half full bottle of bactine
All PizzaGate witnesses..?
Was the driver of the bus yelling anything at the point of impact? Something about All Aboard the Snack Bar or something similar?
I think there was something about the Clinton Foundation too.
Interesting.
“Meesa shoulda no hadda WaleeMart ‘fix’ the breaksa!”
The number of dead and injured makes it doubtful this was an accident.
Spent 6 months in Haiti north of Gonaives back in ‘95. Between us and Gonaives there was less than 3 mile of pavement, the rest of the 60 or so miles was dirt road...and all of it $hitty. The paved road that we did drive on was supposedly laid down by the USMC back in the ‘30’s. In my personal opinion, nothing to do with the ROP, just bad roads, bad drivers, in a 3rd world $hit hole. I went to places there that I said to myself back then, that “this place will not see electricity or running water until the 22nd century”. If you could separate Haiti and somehow tow it to some of the poorest places in Africa, nobody would notice. Every time I think of my time in Haiti, I can still smell it.
Any “hospital ships” off the north coast? Wouldn’t want all those organs to go to waste.
We were there in the mid 80's and I regularly drove from PaP to Cap-Haïtien right through Gonaïves. Even when it was not "RaRa Season" (Lent) going through the area was a nightmare as this was the large marketplace area where the rice growers and buyers would meet, even in the middle of the "highway" of National 1. You just had to keep rolling to move people off the roadway.
I have been in populated areas of the country far away from any road that will never have electricity.
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