SOLOLA, Guatemala Dec 12 (Reuters) - Family members of Guatemalan migrants involved in a deadly truck accident in Mexico said they are desperate for news of their loved ones and feel forgotten by governments that offer few opportunities and no protection on the perilous route to the United States. When Celso Escun Pacheco, 34, left his home in the Guatemalan highlands last week, he kissed his wife and two young daughters goodbye and set out for the dangerous journey to the United States, where he hoped to find a well-paying job. His journey was cut short two days later as he was among the dozens injured when a truck trailer carrying more than 160 people overturned on a curve outside the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez in Mexico"s Chiapas state on Thursday. At least 55 migrants, most from Guatemala, were killed, one of the worst death tolls of migrants in Mexico in the past decade. Escun, a farm worker who earned about $7 a day, escaped with his life, his wife, Lucrecia Alba, told Reuters. At the family"s modest home, made of wood and sheet metal, in Pamezabal, a tiny village in Santa Lucía Utatlan, a municipality of Guatemala"s province of Solola, Alba said the amount of deadly incidents involving migrants made the family feel left behind by state authorities. "It is not the first time that an accident of this type has happened. I believe that no government is interested in the high risks because this has happened many times," Alba said. The incident has put a spotlight on the dangers migrants face on the road to the U.S. border, often at the hands of human-traffickers known as coyotes. Dozens of migrants have died from violence or accidents in Mexico over the past decade. "We need the governments of Mexico and Guatemala to raise awareness - migrants need more security on the road," said Santos Juan Alba, Lucrecia Alba"s uncle. "People are leaving because there are no opportunities here." The accident underscores the extreme conditions, including severe poverty and gang violence, that migrants from Central American countries flee. Dominga Tiniguar, who lives in an impoverished village called Xepol in Guatemala"s Quiche province, has spent days in anguish, awaiting news of her son, a farm worker who planned to earn money in the United States before returning to Guatemala. "He was going to Chicago to work so he could build a house here in Xepol and buy a piece of land," Tiniguar said, holding a photo of her son, Elias Salvador Mateo Tiniguar. Elias had paid a coyote $3,800 and set out for the U.S. border, Tiniguar said. Tiniguar said the family saw a photo from the truck accident and recognized Elias laying on the ground from the blue shirt he was wearing - but they still do not know if he is dead or alive. Guatemala has not yet publicly identified the 55 people who were killed. "They give me no information. They don"t answer the phone," Tiniguar said. "Help me find my son." Following the accident, Guatemalan officials urged the United States to invest in the region to boost development. Mexico and Guatemala both pledged to crack down on international people-smuggling networks they blamed for Thursday"s accident. Enrique Matzar, secretary of the Cocode de Pamezabal, a local government agency in Guatemala, said strict U.S. immigration policies imposed under former U.S. President Donald Trump worsened the issue. "(With) the controls imposed by the last American government, migrating is increasingly costly and dangerous and people will not stop migrating because in Guatemala there is a lot of need and high levels of corruption," Matzar said.