On Monday, 18 March 2019, five people died and more than a dozen were injured in several traffic accidents in Puerto Plata.
Hotel employee Juan Eduardo Céspedes Henríquez, died of head injuries when his motorcycle was hit by a vehicle on the Gran Parada-Montellano road.
The second victim has not yet been identified but was killed during an accident in front of Playa Dorada hotel and residential complex.
In Villa Isabela, 37-year old Williams César Peña from Mao and 17-year old Daniel Tineo Ramos from Luperón, died when two motorcycles collided on the road linking the two communities of La Sabana de Los Mieses and Los Arquíes.
Francisco Núñez died when his vehicle caught fire on the La Catalina-Pata de Gallina road in Sabaneta de Yásica, but the driver of the car managed to save himself.
Five young men were seriously injured when their Ford SUV left the road near the gas station in La Ciénaga in Cabarete. Those injured, who were all from Cabarete, were Robinson Cuello Hilario, Roberto Mejía, Rómulo De la Cruz, Andrés Jiménez and Wilfredo De la Cruz.
Another accident happened to 19-year old Asi Starlin Geraldino Peralta who fell from his motorcycle on the Puerto Plata-Cofresí road. A collision between two motorcycles on the Malecon in Puerto Plata caused serious injuries to 21-year old Yanibel Salvador and 2-year old Alan Dariel Bonilla.
Also with serious injuries are Fiordaliza Camacho, Miguel Caonabo Vargas and Osiris Bonilla, again when two motorcycles collided in Sosua. Two unidentified men were injured as the result of a crash between a car and a motorcycle in front of the Jose Briseño baseball stadium in Puerto Plata city.
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El Dia
19 March 2019