{"id":504867,"date":"2026-04-15T23:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/two-dead-and-one-seriously-injured-in-motorcycle-accident-on-bayaguana-copey-highway\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:28:47","slug":"two-dead-and-one-seriously-injured-in-motorcycle-accident-on-bayaguana-copey-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/two-dead-and-one-seriously-injured-in-motorcycle-accident-on-bayaguana-copey-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead and one seriously injured in motorcycle accident on Bayaguana\u2013Copey highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Bayaguana, Monte Plata<\/strong>. \u2013 Two young people lost their lives on Wednesday afternoon after a tragic <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/accidente-de-camion-en-carretera\/\">accident<\/a> occurred in the community of Cocinero, on the road that connects the municipality of Bayaguana with Copey.\n\nThe deceased were identified as Jhon Javier Guti\u00e9rrez Mej\u00eda and Yeison de Le\u00f3n Ota\u00f1e, both residents of Bayaguana.\n\nAccording to preliminary information, the incident occurred when two motorcycles collided head-on, causing the immediate death of the young people. In the accident, a young woman traveling on one of the motorcycles was also seriously injured, who was assisted by a unit of the National Emergency System 9-1-1 and transferred to the Dr. \u00c1ngel Contreras Hospital, in Monte Plata, where she is receiving medical attention.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We recommend reading:<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/uncategorized\/hombre-pierde-la-vida-en-tragico\/\">Man loses his life in tragic traffic accident on Jaya highway in SFM<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nMembers of the National Police, the Bayaguana Fire Department, and DIGESETT agents arrived at the scene, who are working on gathering information and controlling traffic.\n\nThe victims' bodies remained at the scene, one on the pavement and the other in a ditch, awaiting the medical examiner for the corresponding removal.\n\nAuthorities are investigating the circumstances in which this unfortunate event occurred.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayaguana, Monte Plata. \u2013 Two young people lost their lives on Wednesday afternoon after a tragic accident occurred in the community of Cocinero, on the road that connects the municipality of Bayaguana with Copey. The deceased were identified as Jhon Javier Guti\u00e9rrez Mej\u00eda and Yeison de Le\u00f3n Ota\u00f1e, both residents of Bayaguana. According to preliminary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":504868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[26070],"class_list":{"0":"post-504867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dominican-news","8":"tag-bayaguana"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-15-at-11.22.29-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-15-at-11.22.29-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}