Family of 4 in Hospital after Accident on Hummingbird

A family of four is admitted to the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga in stable condition following a traffic mishap. Forty-seven-year-old Benjamin Paul, an American national, was driving a black Jeep Liberty registered to Barefoot Rental between Dangriga and Belmopan. He was accompanied by thirty-six-year-old Katherine O’Brien and two children Rafael, aged six, and Carmelita, aged three. Around twelve-forty-five this afternoon, between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine on the Hummingbird Highway, he lost control and went over a one-lane bridge and into the creek bed below. Paul, O’Brien and the children all sustained various body injuries classified as wounding. Police investigations continue.