Authorities are investigating whether the driver of a sedan who hit and killed two cyclists at noon on Sunday, September 20, on the highway via Tonosí, in  El Carate de Las Tablas was intoxicated.

The driver of the vehicle that was escorting the competition cyclists reported that whoever was driving the sedan lost control and hit three cyclists. Two of them were pinned between the car and a fence and died on the spot. and the other was able to avoid the sedan and was unhurt, reported Valentín Pérez, regional chief of operations for the Los Santos Fire Department.

The victims were competitive cyclists  Juan Carlos Heilbron and Javier Espinosa.

The latest tragedy occurred on the fifth anniversary of the death of the Panamanian cyclist and triathlete Mónica Isabel Licona de Zepeda, who died in 2015 after being hit by a car on the Balboa Avenue where  a memorial sculpture stands in front of the Hotel Miramar.

Meanwhile,  two occupants of the Hyundai brand vehicle involved in this incident were taken to the hospital by a Sume 911 ambulance.