Eighteen year old cyclist dies in traffic accident

And from robberies to traffic accidents, a young man is dead following a traffic accident last Thursday morning on the Yalbac Road in the Cayo District. According to forty-seven year old Ruperto Pinelo, at around six-thirty that morning he was driving towards Spanish Lookout when a motorcyclist travelling in the opposite direction crossed his path, causing a collision. As a result, eighteen year old Wilson Ayala, suffered severe head trauma and died on Sunday at the K.H.M.H. News Five caught up this afternoon with Ayala’s father, Felipe Castillo, who said his son was going to work when the incident occurred.

Felipe Castillo, Father of Accident Victim
“He was going to work right and pan di curve, a sudden curve and a next vehicle was coming. I don’t know, well I just meet the motorcycle there and he was already taking a lick. My brother was coming behind and he is the one that pick up the body and then bring it to Spanish Lookout clinic. So from there I get the news until bout nine in the morning; about two hours after the accident.”

Marion Ali
“What did you hear?”

Felipe Castillo
“Well, I just hear that he crash, that’s all I hear.”

Police have detained one man pending charges.