*Peru Pasamayo: Lorry driver admits causing deadly coach crash*
A driver in Peru has admitted that his lorry hit the coach that plummeted down a cliff last week killing 52 people. Christian César Killahuamán, 40, told police that the lorry veered into the opposite lane at the sharp and narrow Curva del Diablo (devil's bend). He said one of its wheels touched the coach, which went off the road and landed upside down on a beach.
The accident happened in a notoriously dangerous stretch of coastal road, the Serpentín Pasamayo. The Peruvian government has since closed the road to buses and coaches. They will have to use a safer inland road, which the government plans to widen.
Mr Killahuamán was taken into police custody after the accident, last Tuesday. Peruvian prosecutors accused him of manslaughter. The driver has not been charged, but a judge has agreed to keep him in preventive detention for nine months.
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