Twenty-two people died during the Christmas holiday

Center of emergency operations (COE) reported yesterday that came to 22 the number of people killed during the Christmas holiday, 21 of which were accidents of traffic and one for poisoning alcoholic.

The director of the COE, Juan Manuel Méndez, to offer the second newsletter of the Christmas operating Eva 2011-2012, said 236 people were affected by transit, 20 for alcohol poisoning and 13 by food poisoning accident.

García Méndez highlighted within the poisoned there are four children, one of them six-year-old resident in the area Bella Vista of Santiago.

The military said there were 204 accidents of transit, 160 of light vehicles, five of heavy vehicles and 71 of motorcycles.

Found that the figure of 22 dead is a tragedy, although he noted that this year has decreased the number of deaths by motorcycle accidents, compared to the year u000apast.

He argued that 55 motorcycles to 27.94% of cases were involved in the 204 traffic accident

"The 21 who died by accident there was five cases by crashes and 13 deaths by motorcycle for a total of 61 per cent of the totality of the deceased," said the director of the COE.

Méndez urged the family to not move motorcycle to avoid mourning, because many traveling with wives and children in this type of vehicle designed to transport a maximum of two people.

The official also said that the metropolitan authority of transport (Amet) has detained 165 lorries, whose circulation is prohibited from noon of 24 December.

Stated that operating Christmas Eve 2011-2012 came up to 12: 00 on the date of December 23 dead figures are up to six in the morning yesterday Sunday. It was reported that on Monday, 11 a.m., u000awill be offered a final newsletter of the first phase of the operating

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