"The boat sank after taking on water about 150 metres from shore late on Saturday, the officials said on Sunday.
The boat was on a two-day journey along Haiti's southern peninsula, transporting passengers, food and charcoal to Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
It made several stops to take on passengers and cargo and was overcrowded."
A few weeks ago a truck lost its brakes and slammed into a market with the same unfortunate outcome.
"Dozens of people are feared dead and many more injured after a truck ploughed into a busy market in the town of Cavaillon in southern Haiti."
Now this: a truck traveling out near Pestel (near a village called Beaumont) tried to cross a swollen river (from Faye). The truck had about 60 people on it. So far they are estimating that about 30 of them died in the accident.
You can read about it here.
It was probably a truck similar these ones:
Accidents are a major cause of disability (see the story on Alfred) and death in places like Haiti. We take things like car inspections for granted (or we even grumble about them). When you read about these very real tragedies [consider, for example, the toll this one accident will have on families...on communities. Poor communities become poorer, if that is possible] you begin to realize how basic things like double-yellow lines and Departments of Transportation contribute to the health of people.
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