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04-19-2011, 08:50 PM
A total of 13 persons perished and nine were injured in traffic accidents over the Palm Sunday weekend in Higuey, San Cristobal, the National District, Esperanza and the province of Santo Domingo according to a report from the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET). Of the 13 persons, six died of blows to the head during accidents involving motorcycles. The persons were identified as Jerry Manuel Rivas Perez, Williams Tejeda, Ramon Perez Castro, Felix Antonio Figuereo, Santina Mabel Santana, Ronald Cedeno, Angel Maria de Leon, and the minors Kelvin Jimenez and Elvin Guillermo Cespedes Figuereo, 12 years old.

Also dead were a man still unidentified of some 40 years of age, Reinaldo Perez Castillo and Domingo Antonio Brito Tavarez. Rivas Perez and Tejada perished in the Doctor Vinicio Calventi Hospital in Los Alcarrizos from blows to different parts of the body suffered when the Honda Civic, license A-000918 in which they were riding crashed into a commercial establishment on Duarte Street. Perez Castro, Cedeno and Perez Castillo died in Higuey in separate accidents. Rivera died in Gaspar Hernandez when the motorcycle that he was riding crashed into a truck. Grullon died in San Cristobal as the result of a motorcycle accident, the same as Angel Maria de Leon, in Cotui. Agramonte died in Haina and Brito Taveras in Esperanza.

The Diario Libre said that the minor Elvin Guillermo Cespedes Figuereo died when he was hit by an SUV at kilometer 9 of the Las Americas expressway.

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