Client rents vehicle and sells it
The process of renting a vehicle seems simple enough. And if you can afford it; you pay a daily rate, take the vehicle, and return it at the end of the signed contract. But it appears, one Dangriga man didn’t quite grasp that concept and has left Dangriga Auto Rental one vehicle short. Manager, Michael Evans, contacted News Five and told us that he rented a 2004 Suzuki Grand Vitara to Lindbergh Williams of Commerce Bight Road. But according to Evans, after several extensions on the rental contract, he has been unable to locate both Williams and the vehicle. And Evans says the information he has been getting regarding the whereabouts of the vehicle has been all bad news.
Michael Evans, Manager, Dangriga Auto Rental
“About a week and a half ago I got a call from a Mr. Matus in Belize City who was informing me that that particular vehicle was involved in an accident with him at the corner of New Road and Freetown. The Suzuki Grand Vitara ran the light and slammed into the passenger side of his four door pick-up truck. They did not contact me concerning the accident but they tried to contact the insurance company directly to get the insurance company to pay for the claim without my knowledge. But the insurance company told them that that could not be done and they had to contact me then that was the end of ever seeing the Suzuki Grand Vitara or the driver at the time. The driver at the time was a Michael Lord from a Belize City address, not the person renting the vehicle who was Mr. Williams. Since then all attempts to contact Mr. Williams have turned up futile. We visited his address where we’ve been told he has not been for at least three weeks to a month. It has also come to our understanding, as explained by Mr. Lord to Mr. Matus, that the vehicle now belongs to him. So obviously Mr. Williams sold the vehicle to Mr. Lord.”
“I informed Mr. Williams’ family that at this point I could do nothing else but go to the police and have them assist me and I was going to report the vehicle stolen. So early Wednesday morning, prior to me leaving for Belize City, I got a call from Mr. Williams offering to buy the vehicle from me for eight thousand dollars or if I wasn’t satisfied with that he was going to return the vehicle. Now the vehicle is a 2004 Suzuki Grand Vitara that is presently valued at nineteen thousand dollars so eight thousand dollars was nowhere close to the value of the vehicle.”
