2 overturned buses injure 45
AT LEAST 45 people wer injured after a traffic accident on the Panama-Colon highway involving three diablos rojos (“red devils” recycled US school buses) in Colon Province on Wednesday morning February 3.
Most of the injured were on their way to work in the Free Zone.
Witnesses say that the negligence of a third bus on the Buena Vista route was the cause of the accident.
It happened at 8.30 am on a bend known as Curva del Cebo (Bait bend) in Quebrada Ancha A fleet of ambulances from the 911 Service, the Fire Service, the Red Cross. National Police and the Civil Defense Service (Sinaproc) ferried the injured to the Manuel Amador Guerrero hospital in Colon.
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