Tragic accident in Coronado leaves two minors dead

Saturday, January 29th, 2022, a 14-year-old boy who allegedly lost control of the ATV he was driving, crashed into a family walking on the boulevard road in Coronado, Panama.

Panama Traffic reports the two adolescents that lost their lives in the accident were between 12 and 14 years old. Three others were injured, one of them seriously, when the vehicle overturned.

Everyone was transferred to the emergency room of the Nicolás A Solano regional hospital in La Chorrera and the three survivors of the accident were transferred in an ambulance to another medical center in the capital city.

This is not the first time this has happened in the community of Coronado. It is not clear if the community of Coronado has put a plan in action to help prevent it from happening again.