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Road Crashes Across Latin America Leave Multiple Dead and Dozens Injured

Early‑December travel is coinciding with a spate of high‑impact collisions under investigation, with safety data showing motorcyclists make up about 39% of road deaths.

Overview

  • Mexico’s Civil Protection confirmed one person dead and 33 injured after a passenger bus rear‑ended a trailer on the México–Puebla highway near Río Frío in Ixtapaluca.
  • Two pilgrim groups were struck in separate incidents in Mexico, with at least six injured in Veracruz where an allegedly intoxicated driver was detained, and at least eight injured in Nuevo León where the driver fled.
  • A Peruvian traffic subofficer, Ricardo Manríquez Porro, died on duty in Ventanilla after a truck ran over him following a fall from his motorcycle, with surveillance footage secured and the truck driver under police review.
  • On Peru’s Panamericana Sur near Nasca (Poroma), a head‑on collision between a tanker and a small car left three people dead, including a mother and her 7‑year‑old son, as police and prosecutors conduct inquiries.
  • In Chiapas, Mexico, a bus carrying tsotsil agricultural workers overturned on the Tuxtla–San Cristóbal toll road, leaving one person dead and eight injured, according to state Civil Protection.