Traffic accident tragedies often go unnoticed amid the homicide crisis in Costa Rica

Traffic accident tragedies often go unnoticed amid the homicide crisis in Costa Rica

RICO’s Q — Tuning in to the early morning television news, the top stories are homicides and fatal traffic accidents. As the government and much of the public focus on drug trafficking and organized crime behind the soaring homicide rates, a silent epidemic is rapidly spreading, lightly reported, and mostly goes unnoticed: the deaths on the roads. Costa Rica is literally experiencing a bloodbath due to traffic accidents. At the end of last year,…