Bus, car collide on Western Highway

Shortly after two this afternoon, a tour bus and a car, travelling in opposite directions, collided around mile twenty on the Western Highway. Modesto Lizarraga, the driver of the Novelos bus, says he was transporting a number of tourists to Belize City, but as he reached a curve he saw a car heading towards him. Lizarraga says there was little he could have done to avoid the crash.

Modesto Lizarraga, Driver, Novelos Bus

“All I could recall was that I saw that the car was coming towards me and I just try to avoid it and I try run off of the road. He collided me, crashed me.”

Jacqueline Woods

“You were going towards Belize City and the car was travelling towards Belmopan, were any of your passengers hurt?”

Modesto Lizarraga

“No one got hurt.”

Jacqueline Woods

“What happened to the driver of the car?”

Modesto Lizarraga

“He got, I think a leg hurt and the little boy, I think he got his head bust. They took him to the hospital though.”

The driver of the Nissan has been identified as Sandro Ayala. Travelling along with Ayala was his five-year-old son. Both father and child have been admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.