Moderators Moderator_02 Posted October 17, 2018 Moderators Share Posted October 17, 2018 4 hours ago, Moderator_02 said: Moderator comment: Extracted from Twitter, which included content from La Prensa, regarding a bus in the Colon area that was involved in an incident and became incinerated. http://laestrella.com.pa/panama/nacional/incendio-colon/ https://twitter.com/EstrellaOnline/status/1052455144619696128 Quote Five injured in blazing corridor bus Posted on October 16, 2018 in Panama AT LEAST five people were injured on the Panama-Colon corridor on Tuesday, October 16, when their bus heading for the capital city burst into fLames. 911 Ambulances took the injured to hospital and police closed the highway while firemen smothered the flames on the burned out wreck. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/five-injured-in-blazing-corridor-bus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted October 17, 2018 Moderators Share Posted October 17, 2018 Quote Minor bump driver killed by drunk Posted on October 16, 2018 in Panama The 65-year old driver of a truck carrying chickens whose vehicle was hit by by a 4x4 on the Panama- Ariajan- higway on Sunday evening, October 14 , was killed a few minutes later by a speeding impaired driver when he climbed down to check the damage. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/minor-bump-driver-killed-by-drunk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted October 18, 2018 Moderators Share Posted October 18, 2018 Quote Cell phone, drivers, drunks, facing tough new sanctions Posted on October 17, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 246 A draft bill, to toughen sentences for deaths caused by drunk driving and cell phone use got first reading in Panama’s National Assembly on Tuesday, October 16. Impaired driving and inattention (cell phone use) are listed as major contributors to the annual death toll on the country’s highways, already hovering above the 300 mark with hundreds hospitalized. Lawyer Víctor Martínez said that articles 133 and 134 of the Penal Code will be reformed. Article 133 stipulates a penalty of 3 to 5 years for drunk driving and 3 to 6 years for accidents that cause wrongful death, if the driver is intoxicated,. Now it is requested to increase prison time from 5 to 9 years and at least double it in case of flight or opposing the breath test. Martinez said that the reform also includes that when an accident causes injuries or wrongful death while the driver is using a cell phone, the driver will have the same punishment as if under the influence of alcohol. If a driver is arrested while under the influence of alcohol he will also be sanctioned, and a prison sentence must be served even if a pecuniary agreement is reached, “since the issue of paying does not exempt from criminal responsibility,” said the lawyer. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/cell-phone-drivers-drunks-facing-tough-sanctions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Doug Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 They had better include a prison expansion bill along with this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted October 21, 2018 Moderators Share Posted October 21, 2018 Quote Head-on crash kills father, daughter, injures four Posted on October 20, 2018 in Panama A head -on collision between a Panama-Darién coaster bus and a pick-up on the Pan-American Highway , in front of the police station in Caglón, Darién on Friday night, October 19 killed a father and his three-year-old daughter, and injured four others, pushing the country’s highway death toll for 2018 past the 300 mark. Traffic Police statistics show a regular surge in weekend traffic accidents with speed, alcohol intake and cell phone use as major contributing factors https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/head-on-crash-kills-father-daughter-injures-four Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted October 22, 2018 Moderators Share Posted October 22, 2018 Quote 32 injured in overturned bus Posted on October 21, 2018 in Panama Some 32 passengers were injured when a bus traveling into Panama City hit a tree and overturned on Avenida de Los Mártires, near El Chorrillo on Sunday, October 21. National Police and emergency services transferred the injured to medical centers https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/32-injured-in-overturned-bus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted October 22, 2018 Moderators Share Posted October 22, 2018 1 minute ago, Moderator_02 said: https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/32-injured-in-overturned-bus Would like to hear the complete story. "Hit a tree"??? Did a tree suddenly sprout up on the roadway? Mechanical failure? Driver error? Bad road conditions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) Here's the 'root' story from ElSiglo More than 30 injured after crash and rollover of a bus Erica Trujillo R. etrujillo@elsiglo.com.pa Monday, October 22, 2018 - 12:00 a.m. The impact was strong and around 30 people were injured Accident. In the early hours of Sunday, a traffic accident was reported on Avenida de Los Mártires off El Chorrillo, in the direction of Panama. According to information from the Transit, it was a 'red devil' bus from the La Chorrera - Panama route, which was coming down from the Bridge of the Americas when the driver of the bus apparently left the road, hit a tree and ended up overturning in a ditch. The impact was strong and around 30 people were injured. To the place arrived paramedics from the Unified Emergency Management System (Sume 911), and the National Police who transferred the wounded to the Santo Tomás Hospital and others to the Hospital Complex of the Social Security Fund. http://elsiglo.com.pa/cronica-roja/30-heridos-tras-choque-vuelco/24088926 Edited October 22, 2018 by Keith Woolford 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted October 22, 2018 Moderators Share Posted October 22, 2018 Thanks Keith. Your posting answered my question. Driver error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelyn Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 These bus crashes result in complete destruction of the vehicle and several people harmed. Gotta wonder about qualifications of the drivers. Speed is the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted October 23, 2018 Moderators Share Posted October 23, 2018 Quote 3 dead in bus crashes, drunk driver kills one Posted on October 22, 2018 in Panama Near City of Knowledge Post Views: 192 A car driver became the third person to die on the weekend as the result of a head-on collision with a bus. The accident occurred on Sunday night Oct 21, when a man in his 40’s was killed near the City of Knowledge. A father and his three-year-old daughter,p assengers in a bus died in Darien on Friday evening when the bus was hit by a pickup. Meanwhile, a drunk woman driver left the road and killed a woman, 34 and seriously injured her husband 41, when her car struck the couple out for an evening stroll in David, Chiriqui on Sunday. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/3-dead-in-bus-crashes-drunk-driver-kills-one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted November 4, 2018 Moderators Share Posted November 4, 2018 Quote Lucky escape on Panama’s Cinta Costera Posted on November 3, 2018 in Panama THE DRIVER of this vehicle on the Cinta Costera, on Friday, November 2, walked away unhurt, claiming he was hit by another vehicle. Witnesses say he was speeding when he lost control and was stopped by a tree. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/lucky-escape-on-panamas-cinta-costera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted November 4, 2018 Moderators Share Posted November 4, 2018 Quote Head on collision sends 7 to hospital Posted on November 3, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 196 Seven people were injured four of them critically, in an early morning head-on collision between two taxis. at the entrance of Las Garzas de Pacora on Thursday, November 1. Police are investigating the cause of the incident. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/head-on-crash-sends-7-to-hospital Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted November 5, 2018 Moderators Share Posted November 5, 2018 Quote Drunk driver ran down traffic cop and fled Posted on November 4, 2018 in Panama A drunk driver who on Saturday slammed into a National Police officer on the shoulder of the Pan-America highway in Arriajan is now in preventive detention after being chased and breathalyzed. The officer was the second in a week to be struck by a driver illegally utilizing the hard shoulder in Arriajan . https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/drunk-driver-ran-downtraffic-cop-and-fled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted November 6, 2018 Moderators Share Posted November 6, 2018 Quote 2 dead 5 injured in return-to-city taffic Posted on November 5, 2018 in Panama At least two people were killed and five injured, in traffic accidents in Cocle province as people began to return to Panama City after the holiday weekend when over 6,000 tickets were issued to errant drivers, including 100 driving under the influence. One of the deaths accompanied by five injured, some seriously, was in Guzmán de Natá. Another death was on the Pan America highway when a car plunged from a bridge. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/2-dead-5-injured-in-return-to-city-taffic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted November 19, 2018 Moderators Share Posted November 19, 2018 Quote Speeding driver killed in Metro bus crash Posted on November 18, 2018 in Panama A man behind the wheel of a speeding sedan who crashed into a Metro bus doing a U-turn was killed on Saturday night on the Inter-American highway in the Palo Alto neighborhood, near Diciembre 24 Witnesses said the bus driver made a "U" turn and surprised the driver of the other vehicle, who, apparently, was traveling at high speed, causing the car to collide with the side of the bus. The front of the car was demolished and the bus ended up in a ravine https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/speeding-driver-killed-in-metro-bus-crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted November 24, 2018 Moderators Share Posted November 24, 2018 Quote Motor-cycle patrol cop killed, partner injured Posted on November 23, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 210 National Police officer, second corporal Erick Oscar Córdoba 28 serving in a lynx (motor-cycle patrol) team in Las Tablas was killed and his partner seriously injured on Friday morning, November 23, when they were hit by a vehicle. Cordoba died in the hospital Joaquín Pablo Franco Sayas. His partner. was air-lifted to Santo Tomas Hospital in the capital city The accident raised the total of highway deaths this year to 308. A day earlier a woman riding pillion was killed when the motorcycle ran into the back of a taxi in Felipillo, in the township of December 24. The motorcycle driver was hospitalized Julio González, director of the Transportation Authority (ATTT), said that this year there are 58 fewer highway victims compared to 2017. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/motor-cycle-policeman-killed-by-car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted November 27, 2018 Moderators Share Posted November 27, 2018 Quote Driver killed, two cops injured in Sunday crash Posted on November 26, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 174 Alex Alvarez, 20, the driver of a speeding sedan died instantly when he slammed into a police patrol car in Portobelo, Colon, on Sunday, November 25. Two uniformed officers suffered serious injuries and were transferred to a private hospital and were reported to be out of danger. Investigations are proceeding but initial reports indicate that the driver was intoxicated. The incident raises the highway death toll in Colon this year to25 and nationally to 312 https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/driver-killed-two-cops-injured-in-sunday-crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted December 5, 2018 Moderators Share Posted December 5, 2018 Quote Pedestrian killed by ambassador’s car Posted on December 4, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 413 Vicente Rogmanolly, 67, died after being run over on Avenida Balboa, near the Hospital del Niño early on Sunday, December 2. Early reports said he was struck while on a zebra crossing but the driver of the Mercedes Spanish Ambassador to Panama, Ramón Santos Martínez said the victim was attempting to cross the road when the lights were against him. Rogmanolly died in the Emergency Room of the Hospital Santo Tomás, minutes after his admission, medical sources reported. The strong impact threw him into the air and damaged the hood and the windshield of the vehicle. The ambassador is 59 years old and presented his credentials in Panama in 2015. He remained at the scene and is cooperating with police investigators. Two other pedestrians were killed in traffic incidents on Sunday. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/pedestrian-killed-by-ambassadors-car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted December 18, 2018 Moderators Share Posted December 18, 2018 Quote Seven dead in weekend traffic incidents Posted on December 17, 2018 in Panama Firefighters rescue pregnant woman Post Views: 178 As thousands of families celebrated at the Panama City Christmas parade on Saturday, December 15, four people died and a pregnant woman was seriously injured on the country’s highways bringing the traffic death toll for the year to 323. Another three deaths were recorded on Sunday evening. In Praderas de San Antonio, a woman and her pregnant daughter, were hit by a speeding 4 x4 as they attempted to cross a road in a residential area. Witnesses said they have long been petitioning for traffic signal and better lighting in the area. Firefighters had to lift the vehicle to release the pregnant woman, who was stabilized and taken hospital. In poor condition. Paramedics tried for 40 minutes to resuscitate the other woman but she died at the scene. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/seven-dead-in-weekend-traffic-incidents Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted December 19, 2018 Moderators Share Posted December 19, 2018 Quote Dump truck cuts power, jams traffic Posted on December 18, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 126 A dump truck which demolished a power line in La Cabima, Mayor Diaz on Tuesday morning left hundreds of homes without electricity and cable services And forced the closure of the Electoral Tribunal in Plaza Las Cumbres and the Panama North headquarters of the Municipality of Panama as computers went down Agents of the Transit Authority( ATTT ) and the Directorate of Traffic Operations of the National Police had to close two lanes of the Transistmica road to the city, causing a massive traffic jam. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/dump-truck-cuts-power-jams-traffic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundageba Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 ...the truck driver is now driving a cab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelyn Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Yikes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted December 20, 2018 Moderators Share Posted December 20, 2018 Quote 3 killed by truck bring week’s highway carnage to 13 Posted on December 19, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 249 Three workers on a highway in Arriajan were killed by an allegedly speeding truck on Tuesday afternoon, December 18 bringing Panama’s road carnage for the week to 13. Two of the victims died at the scene. One had been cut in half. A third died hours later r in the emergency room of the Hospital Nicolás A. Solano in La Chorrera. The men were collecting cones from the highway after the completion of repair work A fellow-worker said that drivers do not respect the signs indicating that there are men working and travelg at high speeds through marked sites. In Panama City on Monday evening a taxi – the driver was killed instantly on Avenida Omar Torrijos, in La Forestal, when he lost control of his car and crashed into a tree. Earlier in the day, a woman was killed by a truck on the Pan-American Highway, near Paso Canoas in the district of Barú, in the province of Chiriqui. El Siglo reports that the victim argued with her sentimental partner over the phone and then threw herself in front of the truck heavy vehicle that passed over her. It is being investigated as a suicide. A day earlier a 20-year-old girl was killed by a pickup truck on the same highway in Chiriqui and a criminal investigation is underway. In Cocle a 75-year old cyclist checking on cattle that had strayed from a paddock died when he ran into a bridge and struck his head. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/3-killed-by-truck-bring-weeks-highway-carnage-to-13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundageba Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 Horrible. Bill and I noticed a lot of horrendous speeders weaving in an out of the traffic on the Boquete/David highway. One passed a police car. Police in that car I guess were not designated traffic police. Puzzling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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