Accident on bridge brings traffic to standstill

Traffic on the Northern Highway came to a standstill this afternoon after an accident near the Haulover Bridge blocked the road for approximately an hour. Details are still sketchy as to how the vehicles collided, but reports are that around 2:30 p.m., a crane and this small car crashed on the bridge. According to police, the crane had been heading towards Orange Walk, while the car was travelling in the opposite direction. According to hospital officials, thirty-one year old Felix Castillo, the driver of the car, suffered a fractured left hip and has been admitted to ward. A female passenger travelling with Castillo at the time of the accident was also taken to the K.H.M.H., but was treated and released earlier today.

Meanwhile, San Ignacio police have filed charges against the driver of a truck that crashed on Sunday afternoon, leaving two people dead. Riann Webb has been charged with driving without due care and attention, four counts negligent harm, two counts manslaughter by negligence and two counts causing death by careless conduct. The post-mortem conducted on twenty-five year old Juan Zetina revealed he died due to hypovolemic shock, while the autopsy on eight-year-old Brandon Acott determined the cause of death to be traumatic shock. Zetina and Acott had been sitting in the back of the truck when it turned over on a Mountain Pine Ridge road on Sunday.