Keith Woolford Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 It's a clear dry morning and already somebody's already upside down in front of the Notaria Segunda in David. Beats me how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelyn Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Gotta wonder why so many accidents end with the vehicle up side down on the roof. How does this happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 7, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 7, 2018 Quote Father killed by speeding car, saved son Posted on July 6, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 268 A 34-year-old man walking on a Santiago. sidewalk pushed his small son, to safety before being hit and killed by an out of control speeding vehicle. The incident occurred in front of the Hospital Luis ‘Chicho’ Fábrega, in Santiago, province of Veraguas, at 8:40 pm on Wednesday, July 4. Witnesses told police that the speeding car spun around several times before overturning on the sidewalk. It was the 18th traffic fatality in the province this year. The driver and five passengers were injured. Police are investigating. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/father-killed-by-a-speeding-car-saved-son Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 12, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 12, 2018 Quote Five dead in weekend accidents Posted on July 11, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 168 Five people were killed in Panama highway traffic accidents involving speed and drink on the weekend. On the Pan-American Highway, at Agua Fría in the province of Darién, Yariela De Leon, a lawyer who was a passenger in a pickup taxi was killed when a sedan left its lane and collided head-on with the taxi. The sedan driver who had been drinking died at the scene and the taxi driver is in serious condition in hospital In Palo Alto, in the township of December 24, Salen Keller Rubio died after the vehicle in which he was traveling with his brother and some friends collided with a power line. Witnesses reported that the driver was on the shoulder of the road and when he tried to get into the lane, again, another car hit him and he lost control, spun several times until he hit the post and was overturned. Firemen reported that at the time of the accident, a honeycomb fell on the car and bees began to sting the four occupants. They were rescued by the fire brigade and 911 paramedics and transferred to the emergency room of the Santo Tomás Hospital where Luis Manuel Rodríguez, 20, was put on a life support machine, but he was later pronounced brain dead and the machine was disconnected. A speeding driver was killed after overturning on the Panama-American Highway on Sunday afternoon. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/five-dead-in-weekend-accidents Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 14, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 14, 2018 Quote 10 traffic deaths in first half of week Posted on July 13, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 269 Three accidents in an 11 hour period on Wednesday, July 11, brought highway deaths for the first half of the week to 10. At 4:00 pm in Cañazas. Veraguas.Yamileth Yaneth Rodríguez, 20 injured in a rollover, died in the local hospital. The driver and two men in their twenties were injured. Police attributed the accident to speeding Hours later, Luis Alberto Miter Castillo, 40. was killed in another rollover while driving a taxi in Chepo, Panama East. Again, the accident was put down to speeding At 11:30 on Wednesday night Alcibíades Javier Pitti Saldaña, 67, was hit by a sedan on the main road of Los Anastasios in the District of Dolega, Chiriqui. He died in the emergency room of the Regional Hospital Rafael Hernández de David. A witness said that Alcibíades was lying on the road about 500 meters from a pedestrian bridge when the car passed over him. The driver who said he didn’t see the man called 911 emergency when he felt a bump. There have been 34 fatalities in Chiriqui so far this year. In 2017 there were 420 deaths nationwide, including 136 pedestrians and 30 hit and run incidents, 29 rollovers, and the rest due to collisions. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/10-traffic-deaths-in-first-half-of-week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 20, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 20, 2018 Quote 6-months traffic deaths down to 184 Posted on July 19, 2018 in Panama Every death, is one too many Post Views: 85 Highway traffic deaths in the first six months of the year reached 184, a reduction of 63 over the same period last year, but still too high in a country with a little over four million people. A National Police report highlights that in the period between January and July of 2017 there were 247 deaths. The National Director of Traffic Operations, Ismael Herrera, said that “each accident where human losses are recorded, represent sadness for those who we daily keep on the streets to avoid accidents. Our main mission is to not record any regrettable fact.” The National Police said that they will continue to apply controls and punish drivers who violate traffic regulations http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/6-months-traffic-deaths-drop-to-84 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 21, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 21, 2018 Quote Student and illegal driver raise traffic death toll Posted on July 20, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 153 Parents, students and teachers of Professional and Technical Institute (ITP) of Capira protested on the Pan-American highway, on Thursday, July 19 after newly enrolled student Valentín Rivas, 12, was killed by a school bus in front of the campus. The protesters called for greater security and asked the authorities to place signs and speed bumps on the road in front of the school. Meanwhile, witnesses to the accident reported that the emergency departments took over an hour to arrive at the scene. A couple of hours later on the Arraiján-La Chorrera highway, near the community of Cerro Silvestre, José Carlos Pitty, 24, a dump truck driver died when one of the front tires exploded and he lost control of the vehicle, loaded with 29 tons of rock. By law, a dump truck driver must be 25. The two accidents bring the total of highway deaths this year to 186. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/student-and-illegal-driver-raise-traffic-death-toll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 23, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 23, 2018 Quote One dead three injured in dawn crash Posted on July 22, 2018 in Panama A 28-year-old became the17th fatal traffic victim in the province of Coclé when the vehicle he was driving collided with a National Aeronaval Service (Senan) bus a before hitting a tree t dawn on Sunday, July 22,in Palo Verde de El Chirú de Antón on the Interamerican highway. Three others in the vehicle were injured and taken to the Tejeira Aquilino hospital. So far this year 187 people have died on Panama highways. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/one-dead-three-injured-in-dawn-crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 29, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 29, 2018 Quote Impaired taxi driver kills pedestrian Posted on July 28, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 237 A 72-year-old man, died on Thursday, July 28 in the emergency room of the Rafael Hernández Regional Hospital in David, Chiriquí, after being hit by a taxi whose 33-year-old driver who was under the influence of alcohol. César Enrique Espinoza was hit by the taxi on the main road of Santa Rosa, on the bridge over Quebrada Bejuco when the driver lost control, hitting the victim before slamming into the bridge rail. The taxi driver received minor injuries. A breathalyzer test registered 73 Mg / Dl of breath alcohol (proven drunkenness). Commissioner Elmer Castillo, Chief of the Transit Operations Subdirectorate (SDOT), reported that he is concerned about the number of drivers who have been caught under the influence of alcohol. On the same day, another impaired driver who overturned a vehicle was found to be suspended from driving because of previous impaired driving offenses. He added that there have been 35 alcohol abuse cases that resulted in 19 deaths due to accidents in Chiriqui 1,653 drivers have been sanctioned for proven drunkenness in the province r, and 153 of them have been involved in crashes, collisions, and infractions. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/impaired-taxi-driver-kills-pedestrian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 29, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 29, 2018 Quote One cyclist dead two badly hurt Posted on July 28, 2018 in Panama A 15-year-old boy cyclist identified as Isaías Sánchez died on Saturday, July 28 after being run over on the National Highway near Parita, Herrera. Two other cyclists received serious injuries Early reports indicate that some cyclists became entangled and lost their balance and the escorting vehicle hit the young Sánchez. http://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/one-cyclist-dead-two-badly-hurt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted July 31, 2018 Moderators Share Posted July 31, 2018 Quote Chiriqui highway death toll hits 37 Posted on July 30, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 136 Katherine Alieen Romero, 23, died in the early hours of Monday morning, when the driver of a car in which she was a passenger, lost control and hit a tree hit a in the community of Aguacatal in David, Chiriqui. She was the 37th person to die in a Chiriqui road accident in 2018 https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/chiriqui-highway-death-toll-hits-37 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Someone sent me this short clip filmed at an intersection, supposedly in Mexico. I remember these days in David, before stoplights. PrecisionDriving261.mp4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted August 12, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 12, 2018 Quote Two dead two injured in traffic incidents Posted on August 11, 2018 in Panama A triple collision involving a truck mule, a 4x4 and a sedan on a bend at El Arranque, on the Boyd Roosevelt road (Transístmica) in Colon left one dead and two critically injured on Thursday, August 9. It was the 20th traffic fatality in Colon this year and brought the total across the country to 196. The same afternoon a pedestrian who tried to cross the road near the Summit Municipal Park in Gamboa was hit and killed by a car. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/two-dead-two-injured-in-traffic-incidents Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted August 17, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 17, 2018 Moderator comment: Another case of poor proofreading in the number of roadway deaths in this article. Quote “Reduced” highway death toll reaches 218 Posted on August 16, 2018 in Panama Post Views: 71 Deaths from Traffic accidents this year climbed to 2018 on Wednesday, August 15 when a man was killed attempting to cross the highway after midnight under a pedestrian bridge at Tocumen Plaza in Juan Diaz. Twenty-eight hours earlier another man was killed near an overhead crossing on the Arriajan-Chorrera highway. The two deaths bring the total this year to 2018. A reduction of 50 compared to the same time period last year. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/reduced-highway-death-toll-reaches-2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 (edited) Bad crash this morning on the Via Boquete southbound near Los Algorrobos. https://twitter.com/roxannasaldanac/status/1030802604907999232?s=21 Edited August 18, 2018 by Keith Woolford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 There were three pedestrian deaths on consecutive days this weekend in Chiriqui. Police gave out 29 speeding tickets on the Via Boquete on Saturday. Police Commisioner Elmer Castillo says drivers are not respecting limits. https://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/provincias/en-las-ultimas-horas-tres-personas-han-sido-atropelladas-en-chiriqui-1113929 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcelyn Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 On our way to David last week we noticed police located “in unexpected locations” all with radar equipment. A white pick-up roared past us as we remarked to each other: “boy, is he speeding”. Yup, around the next curve the officer had radar in hand and the pick-up was stopped. Assume that driver was given a big ticket. Glad the police are taking this action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted August 21, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 21, 2018 Quote Three Chiriqui road deaths as speed and alcohol reign Posted on August 20, 2018 in Panama The speeding pickup Post Views: 165 THREE people were run over and killed in three successive days in Chiriqui last week bringing the province’s death toll so far this year to 27, up from 13 in the same period last year with drunk drivers playing an increasing role in the slaughter. The Chiriqui deaths znd two others, one in Capira and another in Colon raise the national casualty figure to 224 while hundreds more with serious injuries are putting additional strain on the country’s overstretched hospitals. Roberto Armando Becker, 35, , died early Sunday, August 19 after being hit by a pickup, while using a marked crossing near the women’s prison in Dolega. on the road from David to Boquete Commissioner Elmer Castillo, head of the Subdirectorate of Traffic Operations (SDOT), said that everything seems to indicate that there was excessive speed because there is a marked pedestrian crossing on the pavement. “This makes our work seem in vain. Yesterday 29 speeding tickets were issued on this stretch of road. We had breathalyzer devices at this point, in the Caldera checkpoint, and in Dolega to Potrerillos, as it was the patronal feast and 34 drivers were charged with impaired driving” said Castillo. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/three-chiriqui-road-deaths-as-speed-and-alcohol-reign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 19 minutes ago, Moderator_02 said: We had breathalyzer devices at this point, in the Caldera checkpoint, and in Dolega to Potrerillos, as it was the patronal feast and 34 drivers were charged with impaired driving” said Castillo. There is a message here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoSailors Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Keith Woolford said: There is a message here. Too bad they are not paying attention to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted August 23, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 23, 2018 Quote 22 National police injured in crash 3 critically Posted on August 22, 2018 in Panama TWENTY TWO National Police officers were injured, three critically when a bus carrying 27 personnel plunged into a gully in La Pintada Volteadero, in Coclé province, an area considered dangerous by motorists. According to the Panama Fire Department, firemen from the Coclé Zone rescued the wounded. The seriously injured were taken by helicopter to Hospital Santo Tomas. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/16-national-police-injured-in-crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted August 23, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 23, 2018 Quote Panamanian Parliament to debate bill that tightens sanctions against drunk drivers Wed, 08/22/2018 - 16:03 The Panamanian Parliament will discuss a bill introduced by a group of citizens seeking to tighten sanctions against drivers who have caused a fatal accident by driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs or using cell phones. The National Assembly, of 71 deputies, announced on Tuesday on social networks that the Government Commission proposed bill 9, introduced by several citizens last May, days after a fatal controversial traffic accident in the country. The bill seeks, among other issues, to tighten sanctions against drivers involved in fatal crashes with 5 to 8 years in prison and fines of up to $ 5,000. The bill also obliges the authorities to conduct drug and alcohol tests immediately after the accident is registered. At the beginning of last May, a 28-year-old woman died in a traffic accident registered in one of the bridges that cross the Panama Canal, which caused great astonishment in the country because the driver was under the influence of alcohol. https://www.panamatoday.com/panama/panamanian-parliament-debate-bill-tightens-sanctions-against-drunk-drivers-7648 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted August 29, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 29, 2018 Automated translation: "Truck ran over a student in Potrerillos and is badly injured in the ditch, is treated by paramedics and taken to the hospital." Posted on Twitter on August 28, 2018. Quote https://twitter.com/chiriquinotici1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Moderator_02 Posted August 31, 2018 Moderators Share Posted August 31, 2018 Quote One dead 16 injured in coaster bus crash Posted on August 30, 2018 in Panama One person was killed and 16 injured ( two critically) when a coaster bus crashed into a ditch on Thursday afternoon, August 30 on the road to El Salado de Remedios in the direction of David, Chiriqui. The Fire Department reported that the bus was carrying 30 passengers on the David-Santiago route. The injured were taken to regional hospitals in Felix and David by ambulances of the Unified Emergency Management System (SUME). The cause of the accident is unknown, but the highway was wet from heavy rains. https://www.newsroompanama.com/news/panama/one-dead-16-injured-in-chiriqui-bus-crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woolford Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 Earlier today near Plaza San Francisco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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