Browse Honduras Daily Stories

Onner Suazo Martínez, a 26-year-old security guard, died when his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck in La Ceiba on the evening of August 15.

Delsy Maribel Hernández Hernández, a Class I police officer assigned to El Negrito, Yoro, died after her Toyota Corolla veered off Highway RN-23 near Vueltas de Chancaya on Friday.

Investigators say worn-out rear brake pads and a burst auxiliary pump likely caused a bus to lose control in Tegucigalpa's Los Pinos neighborhood on August 2, killing two men, aged 67 and 72, and injuring at least five others.

Víctor Manuel Pineda Trejo, 69, a security guard, died Saturday morning when his motorcycle collided with a Ford Escape on a main street in San Pedro Sula; authorities are investigating the cause.

A young motorcyclist died on July 6 after losing control on a curve along kilometer 111 of Honduras's CA-5 highway and colliding with a pickup truck near San Pedro Sula; authorities have not identified the victim.

A bus on the Victoria–Yoro route collided with a white pickup truck in Morazán, Yoro, leaving several people injured; witnesses reported at least two deaths, but authorities have not yet confirmed fatalities.

A 40-year-old tow-truck driver from Choloma was turned over to prosecutors for investigation into a June 17 traffic accident on Highway CA-5 that killed seven National Police officers and injured dozens when his vehicle lost control descending a slope, overturned, and struck a police bus.

A tractor-trailer collided with a police bus on the Rodeo grade of the CA-5 highway Wednesday afternoon, killing several officers and injuring others, with the exact toll still unconfirmed.

A 14-year-old and a 20-year-old remain in critical condition at Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital after a motorcycle collided with a pickup truck near the Technological University of Honduras; one is in intensive care and the other on mechanical ventilation following emergency brain surgery.

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.