Car crash kills 2, bus crash injures 3traffic deaths

Two men , the driver aged 33 and the passenger 21 were killed on Sunday, April 7  when their car crashed into a hollow near the Inter-American highway in Gorgona de Chame.  The accident forced the closing of two lanes leading to the interior t causing a major traffic jam. Their deaths brought the total in Panama West this year to 13

Meanwhile three people were injured when the driver of a bus from on the David-Changuinola route lost control and hit the fence of Fortuna Dam in Chiriqui. Wire mesh fencing prevented the bus from plunging into the hydro-electric project.