A 52-year-old man was killed when a car he was driving hit a dump truck that had stopped to turn left to a construction project on the shoulder of Monsignor Guerrero Road near the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.\u2019s power station in Chalan Kiya on Saturday night. <\/p>\n
The fatality was identified as Felix Palacios, 52, an employee of Triple J. Enterprises, according to Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Derek Gersonde.<\/p>\n
Gersonde told Saipan Tribune last night that Palacios was not wearing a seatbelt and that DFEMS rescuers had to use special equipment (Jaws of Life) to extricate him from inside the wrecked vehicle. <\/p>\n
It is not clear yet whether other persons were injured in the accident. <\/p>\n
Gersonde said DFEMS received a call from the Department of Public Safety dispatch 911 at 6:55pm about a car collision in Chalan Kiya.<\/p>\n
Gersonde said that Palacios was driving his vehicle toward As Terlaje, coming from the San Jose area.<\/p>\n
A dump truck had stopped on the inner lane and signaled to turn left toward the construction project. Palacios\u2019 vehicle rear-ended the dump truck.<\/p>\n
When DFEMS emergency medical technicians arrived at the scene, they observed a vehicle, which sustained damage to the windshield and engine compartment, causing Palacios to be pinned under the dashboard.<\/p>\n
EMTs assessment at the scene was that Palacios had no pulse and not breathing.<\/p>\n
Cardio pulmonary resuscitation was performed on the victim while he was being transported to the Commonwealth Health Center\u2019s emergency section.<\/p>\n
A CHC doctor pronounced Palacios dead at 7:17pm.<\/p>\n
Saipan Tribune observed that Palacios\u2019 vehicle was totally wrecked by the impact.<\/p>\n
The accident snarled traffic in the area. <\/p>\n
The DPS information office, as of press time yesterday, had not responded to calls and text messages, requesting for details about the incident. Palacios is the first fatality of a car accident in the CNMI this year. <\/p>\n
Saipan Tribune is still trying to verify unconfirmed information that a Chinese woman, who was hit last month along Chalan Pale Arnold in Gualo Rai, had passed away due to her injuries. <\/p>\n
Last December, two persons died and three others were injured during a vehicular accident on Chalan Pale Arnold Road in As Mahetog. <\/p>\n
Police said that speed and alcohol were factors in that crash. <\/p>\n
DPS stated there had been 1,730 vehicular crashes in the CNMI in 2016 and 62 of them were alcohol-related, resulting in one traffic fatality. The As Mahetog incident was not included in that statistic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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