Belmopan resident dies is traffic accident on island

A Belmopan resident is dead following a traffic accident in San Pedro Town. The collision occurred around six-thirty this morning on the south end of the island. Police say that twenty-one year old Vidal Escalante of Cardinal Avenue in Belmopan was driving a rented golf cart in the company of his girlfriend, Jinelle Harrison when he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into the rear left wheel of a six-wheeler truck travelling in the opposite direction. Escalante died shortly after the accident. The truck is the property of the San Pedro Town Council and was being driven at the time by thirty-two year old Edmir Dominguez.