translated from Spanish: Control found 16 passenger buses running on forged papers

The case of the BlueLine bus crash, which was transiting with its adulterated papers and patents, revealed that other audited machines were also operating dangerously in illegality. The Blue Line accident on Southern Route 5 a few days ago, where six people died, exposed a series of irregularities in a part of passenger transport companies. In the case of the sinierated machine, it was circulating with patents belonging to another bus of the same line and with adulterated documentation, but this situation exposed that it is not the only case in the field. The Ministry of Transport in the days leading up to the accident had detected 16 other intercity and rural buses using false driving licences, according to the newspaper “El Mercurio”. After the detection of these irregularities, the ministry requested the documentation of all intercity buses in the country, which reach 5,292. “This information, which will be given to each regional seremi, will then be analyzed and collated with the respective municipalities,” explained José Luis Domínguez, undersecretary of the portfolio. In this way it seeks to establish a unified system that allows to more accurately control in the future, since currently the documentation goes through different entities such as municipalities, insurance companies, the ministry, among others, what makes more proper regulation. In addition, the possibility of creating a technological system is managed where on a chip stuck in the windshield all the information associated with the machine and your company is kept.

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