Woman dies in vehicles collision on the George Price Highway

Posted: Saturday, August 16, 2014. 8:34 am CST.

BREAKING NEWS

Saturday, August 16, 2014. PATRICK E. JONES Reporting: A fatal road traffic accident this morning on the George Price Highway has claimed the life of a woman.  The crash happened around 6 am in the village of San Jose Succotz.

Yolanda Valencia

Preliminary information received say that a Pathfinder and a taxi cab collided near Mile 72 on the George Price Highway – also referred to as the Benque Road – resulting in fatal injuries to the woman, whose name has not yet been confirmed.

Accident scene

Sources say that the Pathfinder was being driven at the time of the crash by a senior police officer who lives in Benque Viejo del Carmen town.

UPDATE: 9:15 am – The victim of this morning’s fatal road traffic accident has been identified as Yolanda Valencia, a resident of San Jose Succotz village, Cayo.

UPDATE: 10:55 am – According to reports received, the driver of the taxi that was involved in this morning’s traffic accident is hospitalized in a serious condition.

We are trying to confirm his name.

Traffic accident

UPDATE: Investigations continue to try and determine what led to this morning’s fatal traffic accident at mile 71 on the George Price Highway.  55 year old Yolanda Vargas died inside a taxi cab.

A cell phone video surface this afternoon which shows Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura outside the driver’s side of the Pathfinder which was also involved in the accident.

httpv://youtu.be/6ra_PPeLyLc

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