Two dead in Southern Highway crash

On Friday night two men died in the Stann Creek District when their vehicle barrelled through an intersection and ran off the road. Twenty-six year old Peter Ciego and forty-year-old Edward Nicassio, both of Dangriga, were travelling west on the Hopkins Village entrance road. But when they reached the T-shaped intersection with the Southern Highway, instead of stopping, their pickup continued across the highway and drove straight into the deep ditch on the west side of the road. After being freed from the wreckage, the men were taken to Southern Regional Hospital where they were pronounced dead on arrival.