One person is dead due to a road traffic accident. It involved a police vehicle and a civilian vehicle. The collision occurred in front of the Texaco gas station on the Benque Viejo Road in San Ignacio Town.
Twenty three year old Defido Monroy was driving the police vehicle westbound to Benque Viejo when they slammed into the minivan that reportedly went out of control.
The police report is that twenty year old Oran Gonzales, the driver of the Mitsubishi van lost control of the vehicle and collided into the police pickup truck.
Inside the van at the time were twenty three year old Ireno Magana, nineteen year old Moses Magana and nineteen year old Jovanni Mena. Ireno Magana suffered serious head and body injuries and later succumbed to his injuries. The fatal road traffic accident remains under investigation and at this time none of the drivers have been detained.
