Overcrowded double decker bus flips and falls 100ft down Andean mountain ravine killing 16 people and injuring 58 Police say the exhausted driver was speeding as he entered 'Devil's Curve' Among the dead is a one-year-old baby, according to local health official Narrow, steep roads of the Peruvian Andes are notorious for bus crashes Sixteen people died and 58 were hurt after a double-decker bus flipped on a tortuos Andean mountain highway and plunged into a deep ravine. The packed bus tumbled down a 98ft slope at a spot known as the 'Devil's Curve' on the highway leading from the city of Huaraz to Pativilca in Peru's Ancash region. Among the dead is a one-year-old baby, said Ancash province health director Carlos Segovia. Horror in the mountains: The wreckage of the double-decker bus which flipped over and plunged nearly 100ft down a ravine in the Peruvian Andes yesterday, killing 16 people and injuring a further 58 Smash: The packed bus tumbled down a slope at a spot known as the 'Devil's Curve' on the highway leading from the city of Huaraz to Pativilca in Peru's Ancash region. The exhausted driver was apparently speeding A spokesman for the local police told San Antonio, Texas-based newspaper La Prensa that the bus was apparently speeding and its driver exhausted. He added that the injured were taken to five hospitals in the region and that the bodies of those killed in the accident will be delivered to their families. The crash happened just before noon on Thursday as the bus was making its way to Peru's capital, Lima, which lies about 134 miles south-west of the site. Rescued passengers were freed from the wreckage by police and firefighters, according to officials at one hospital which treated survivors. Rescue: Police and firefighters work to free a trapped passenger. Survivors were taken to five nearby hospitals Police transport survivors to hospital: The smash happened just before noon on Thursday as the bus was making its way to Peru's capital, Lima, which lies about 134 miles south-west of the crash site The unpaved, high-altitude roads of the Peruvian Andes are notorious for bus plunges, with poor farmers comprising many of the victims. Inexperienced drivers and poor maintainance of buses also contribute to the death toll. Last year, more than 4,000 people were killed in such accidents. In October, 51 Quechua farmers died in southeastern Peru in the country's worst highway accident in three decades.