Two dead in weekend traffic mishaps

The hard curves and hurried driving on the Northern Highway between the airport and Haulover Bridge have claimed yet another victim. He is forty-two year old Alfonso Singh of Ladyville. Around 3:30 p.m., Singh, a resident of Vista del Mar, was on his way home when he lost control of his Ford Ranger pickup truck. According to police, Singh had just come out of a curve and was driving between miles six and seven when the accident occurred. It is not certain what caused the vehicle to go out of control, but after running off the highway, the pickup turned over several times. Singh, who was wearing his seatbelts, nonetheless received severe head injuries and died an hour later at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to relatives, Singh had travelled to Belize City on Father’s Day to clean his dad’s gravesite and was returning home when the crash occurred.

On Saturday night a policeman was killed when his motorcycle crashed head-on into a pickup truck. The traffic accident occurred on the Southern Highway sometime after seven. Police say Police Constable number thirty-six Denton Norales, affectionately known as the “Singing Policeman”, was riding south towards Independence Village but as he reached the village entrance, a brown pickup, which was travelling in the opposite direction, overtook another vehicle and crashed head-on into Norales. The police officer died immediately from the impact. The driver of the pickup, twenty-year-old William Muschamp, has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, driving without due care and attention and causing death by careless conduct. Funeral services for Norales will be held on Friday at two at the Catholic Church in Georgetown Village.