Two more deaths on Friday, August 31 brought the victims of traffic accidents in the province of Chiriquí,  to 48, while the national toll reached 237.

María Peña, 66, died in the Veraguas hospital from the injuries she received in the earlier bus accident in  Santiago David,  in which Maily Lizbeth Santos Lizondro, 17 was killed instantly and 16 other passengers were injured. One of the injured remains in critical condition.