Palenque, Chiapas — A Playa del Carmen police officer of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) was killed Sunday in an accident. The accident happened Sunday morning on a stretch of Chiapas highway when his car collided with a semi.
Playa del Carmen officer Oswaldo Rodriguez “D” and two of this brothers were killed. A forth man, reported to be a family member, also died. The officer was on his way to Tabasco to visit his sick mother at the time of the crash.
According to early information, the driver of the Nissan Tsuru in which the men were traveling invaded the opposite lane, crashing head on with a semi. All four inside the car were pronounced dead at the scene.
National Guard Highways posted a brief notice that the two vehicle accident had caused a partial road closure. “Chiapas: partial closure of traffic due to road accident near km 193+000 of highway (2810) Villahermosa-Francisco Escárcega, Heed traffic signs.”
It is not known who was driving the car at the time of the accident.
