9 dead over 40 injured in bloody traffic weekend
A PICKUP TRUCK carrying passengers from a church activity plunged 60 meters off the road, killing two and injuring16, one critically on Friday, April 15.
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t happened on a mountain road in Valle de Agua in Almirante, Bocas Del Toro The dead passengers were a 40 year old man and a baby of 4 months.
The injured were taken to hospital in Almirante, and the one in critical condition to hospital in Changuinola.
The accident was one of series of fatal transit events on a bloody weekend that claimed the lives of eight people
Two people died in a crash on Corridor North on Friday afternoon.
The 34-year-old driver of a Mustang was killed on Boyd Roosevelt (Transístmica), in Colon at 8 am on Saturday morning when he collided with a delivery truck. His vehicle was split in two and he died on the spot.
On the afternoon of the same day on Amador Guerrero Avenue, in the Barrio Sur, Colon a man was hit by a taxi flung into the air and killed. The driver tried to leave the scene but was stopped police officers.
In Santa Rita, on the road to Cerro Cama. Chorrera, a 20-year-old man was killed when the driver of the vehicle he was traveling in lost control and hit a concrete pole.
Luis Alberto Santamaria Castillo, 45, died on Saturday afternoon in the Boquete, district in Chiriqui province when he lost control and overturned. He was the 23rd traffic fatality in the province so far this year.
At noon on Sunday Carmen Betancour 21, was killed and her three passengers, a young man and two children, seriously injured, in Chirú Anton.The injured were taken to Aquilino Tejiera Hospital in Penonomé.
Later in the afternoon a crash in Chepo involving a a bus and a pick up sent 16 to hospital. including nine children
There were other weekend accidents with injuries involving taxis and buses..
