Playa del Carmen, Q.R. — Authorities have not named the woman killed Sunday morning in a rear end accident outside Playa del Carmen. The woman, who was the front seat passenger, died after the car she was in hit a pole.
The accident happened approximately five kilometers north of the city of Playa del Carmen Sunday when one car rear ended another. People at the Punta Maroma gas station called for help after hearing the commotion.
Police arrived and requested paramedics who confirmed one dead person.
According to the traffic crash report, the driver of one red car, traveling at excessive speed, happened upon a second red car in the same lane traveling in the same direction. That car was rear-ended by the speeding driver and thrown forward into a pole.
The female passenger in the front seat of that car was thrown into the windshield as the car slammed into the CFE pole. She was pronounced dead at the scene from head and chest injuries.
Police did not say if she was wearing a seat belt. The driver of the car was not seriously injured and treated at the scene.
Municipal police took the drivers of both vehicles into custody while National Guard Highways controlled traffic around the site of the crash. The woman killed in the Sunday crash has not been named.
