TWO TAXI DRIVERS racing on a public highway at 6.30 pm, in Alcalde Diaz, Panama, raised the Sunday, January 25, death toll from traffic accidents to 10.

 The drivers of a Yaris and a Suzuki crashed when one of them lost control on a road under repair and housing construction projects .The driver of the Suzuki, 48, was uninjured. The driver of the Toyota, died at the scene.
In the morning of the same day six people were killed in Chiriqui when a bus plunged into a creek and in the afternoon, three died in a busita crash in Arraiján.
On Monday, January 26, President Juan Carlos Varela who had., on the previous day visited injured survivors of the Chiriqui tragedy in  a David hospital,, promised to tighten controls on bus operator s and to start an audit of bus driver licenses to ensure that they were legitimately obtained.
Meanwhile many of Panama’s Metro buses are driven by former diablo rojo operators, notorious for their bad driving habits, many of whom moonlight as taxi drivers.