Taxista brings highway death toll to 247

THE DRIVER  of a speeding taxi was killed and his two elderly passengers badly injured on Tuesday night, September 11  in El Peñón, Alcalde Díaz.

Witnesses said the driver,40,  lost control crossed into the opposite lane and hit a concrete post. When paramedics arrived he was dead. The passengers. a man 78,  and a woman  64,   were transferred to hospital where they are in stable condition.

The incident brings the death toll on Panama roads this year to 247.