THE SLAUGHTER on Panama highways continues unabated. and in less than six months 186 people have died in traffic accidents and hundreds more have been injured, many seriously, including loss of limbs.
Tomas Sanchez a 72-year-old farmer was killed on Friday May 20 in a collision on the Pan American Highway at Varital in Boqueron, Chiriqui, when his pickup truck was involved in a collision with a sedan.
He was taken to the Rafael Hernandez Hospital in where he died some four hours after the accident.

A second PanAm highway accident in Chiriqui claimed the life of Norberto Ismael Gonzalez Navarro, 20 in Veladero, in the district of Tole, in the east of the province. He was driving a pickup carrying bananas and vegetables.
The two deaths brought the Chiriqui total for the year to 39.