Traffic Accident

A truck made an unsafe passing maneuver and struck a motorcyclist in La Esperanza, Intibucá on Monday; the truck driver fled the scene.

Authorities closed the northbound exit from Tegucigalpa after a collision involving two large trucks and a bus; no injuries have been reported yet, and officials urged drivers to use alternate routes.

Sairy Portillo Betancour, 51, a Honduran who had recently returned from the United States, died from third-degree burns covering 99 percent of his body after his motorcycle collided with a bus and caught fire in San Pedro Sula's Barandillas neighborhood on Thursday; the intersection lacked a visible traffic sign.

A child was struck by a pickup truck while running out of a store near a school in Santa Rita, Copán; security cameras captured the collision, but the child suffered only minor injuries and shock from the incident.

A motorcycle collided with a public bus in the Barandillas neighborhood of San Pedro Sula on Thursday, igniting both vehicles; the motorcycle driver suffered severe burns but was rescued by bystanders and the bus driver before firefighters arrived.

Rescue workers recovered the body of a 9-year-old girl from the wreckage of a runaway dump truck that lost its brakes in the Villa Nueva neighborhood, bringing the death toll to eight.

Denia Marisol Ramírez Ortiz, 34, and Evelyn Yasmín Irías Hernández, 26, were among eight people killed in a crash in Tegucigalpa's Villa Nueva neighborhood; families remembered them as hardworking women devoted to their families and faith.

Two brothers, ages 13 months and 12 years, were released Monday from Hospital Escuela after being injured in a fatal accident in Tegucigalpa's Villa Nueva neighborhood.

A dump truck that was apparently out of control plowed into vehicles and structures in the Villa Nueva neighborhood of Tegucigalpa at midday on June 1, killing nine people.

A driver nearly lost his life in a serious collision in the San Miguel neighborhood of Tegucigalpa that knocked down a power pole, leaving nearby areas without electricity.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano is calling for a thorough investigation into a road accident in Villanueva that killed at least eight people and injured about a dozen, and urging authorities to enforce traffic laws strictly to prevent future crashes.