Accident highlights need for speed bumps

With almost fifty thousand cars on Belize’s roads, it is imperative that traffic be regulated to ensure safety. One concerned citizen, is on a crusade to save lives and says that sleeping policemen will help.

Ann-Marie Williams

?On any given day, the traffic comes out of Elston Kerr Street, goes into Partridge, while traffic coming out of Partridge Street converges right here on Cemetery Road.?

Concerned citizen Frank Lizama, who lives on Cemetery Road, contacted News Five today to bring his concern to the public. And what is his concern?

Frank Lizama, Concerned Citizen

?Saving lives. I?ve been trying for a long time to get the City Council to address the speeding problem in this section of the city; the approach to the cemetery. I?ve been to the council and the mayor himself came, looked at the situation and promised that they would but a speeding bump to slow down the traffic. The next time, he sent his engineer. The engineer came and he said he will do it, but it was just lips, nothing else. It seems to me that nobody wants to make an effort in saving the lives of those children who are passing back and forth everyday.?

And someone almost lost their life last night, when a car crashed into this fence on Cemetery Road. Lizama says it?s not the first time, but he also said that it could have been avoided had the authorities put a sleeping policeman to slow down drivers.

But drivers are not the only ones in danger of being hit by this four-way traffic converging on Cemetery Road.

Frank Lizama

?I was invited by Councilor Carter to go and address the Council, which I did. I went there and I asked them to please put a speed bump because we have at least one hundred and fifty to two hundred children crossing Cemetery Road between Partridge Street and Elston Kerr Street, going to Gwen Liz school, and also to Wesley and St. Martin?s school in the Lake Independence area. I am so concerned about these children, because it takes them some time, at least about fifteen to twenty minutes just to cross the street.?

Ann-Marie Williams For News Five.

News Five tried to contact Mayor Fonseca about putting the sleeping policemen on Cemetery Road, but we were told he was attending a meeting in Belmopan.