LIMA, Peru – At least 36 people are dead in the collision of three buses and a truck on Peru’s main coastal highway.
Police chief Gen. Jorge Flores said the most serious of the 70 people injured in Monday’s pre-dawn crash were helicoptered to Lima from the scene in Huarmey some 200 miles north of the capital.
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Police say a bus owned by the company Murga Serrano strayed into the oncoming lane and slammed head-on into the first of the other two buses. The truck then plowed into the wreckage.
It was Peru’s deadliest road accident since October 2013, when 51 people were killed near Cuzco when an overloaded truck fell into a ravine.
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