Farmer dead in W. Highway traffic accident
A farmer of Santa Elena, Cayo is dead after he was knocked down on the Western Highway Thursday night. Forty-eight year old Guatemalan Samuel de Jesus Sinturion was reportedly hit by a Toyota pick-up near mile sixty-five at around 7:30. The man who hit him, fifty-eight year old Marcus Waight of Seven Miles Village, was heading east on the highway when the collision occurred. De Jesus died of head injuries at the San Ignacio Hospital. Police have not yet filed any charges against Waight.