Playa del Carmen, Q.R. — Traffic was congested Monday morning during a pedestrian accident that left one man dead. Playa del Carmen Transit Police had a section of the boulevard closed near Centro Maya around 10:30 a.m.
The unidentified man was trying to cross Playa del Carmen Boulevard when he was struck by a company truck. The speed of the impact caused him to be projected several meters ahead of the vehicle.
A long line of black tire marks were part of the deadly Monday scene. Paramedics pronounced the man at the site of the accident as dead. He was reported to have been around 50.
According to a briefing by the Seguridad Pública Solidaridad (SSP), “the high lane on Playa del Carmen Boulevard, from south to north (at the height of the Chedraui self-service store) was closed (…) after a traffic event in which a man lost his life after trying to cross the road by climbing over the guard rail and being hit by a truck.”
