AN IMPROPER turn by a sedan driver on a busy highway led to a collision with a bus and the death of Orlando Sáenz former director of the Agricultural Development Bank (BDA), in Los Santos in the Martinelli administration.

The incident occurred at 6:30 in the evening of Saturday, February 24 on the Pan-American Highway at the entrance of Chumajal, in Guararé.

Sáenz, the car driver died in instantly, and became Panama’s 54^th traffic fatality this year, with five of the deaths in Los Santos.None of the 30 bus passengers was injured.

There are around 120 traffic accidents every day in Panama.

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