Honduran Man Killed in Alabama Roadside Accident

Published on Honduras Daily · Nov 12, 2026 · Originally reported November 11, 2026 by Once Noticias

Javier Martínez, 26, of Choloma, Cortés, was struck and killed by a passing vehicle on November 9 while changing a tire on Interstate 459 South near Hoover, Alabama; his community is raising funds to repatriate his remains to Honduras.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Once Noticias, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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