3 dead, 4 injured in Saturday crashes

THREE people died and four were injured on Saturday, June 2  in a series of unrelated traffic incidents.

The first, around 6:00 in the morning, on Via Centenario in front of the Centennial Plaza involved a sedan and a truck. One of the vehicles crossed the meridian into the wrong lane. A 23-year-old died on the spot and three people were injured, two seriously and taken to hospital. One of the drivers was intoxicated according to police.

A  73-year-woman  died when a car driven by her husband hit a fire hydrant and crashed in Los Olivos, in Los Santos, bringing transit deaths in the province this year to eight. The husband was hospitalized.

In the district of Changuinola, Bocas del Toro,  A 57-year-old woman, was run over and killed after getting off a bus in the community of El Silencio.

A total of 146 people have been killed on Panama highways so far this year.