Other motor accidents kill three

On Friday another man was killed by a motor vehicle, this time in Orange Walk. Sixty-five year old Guatemalan Ricardo Arriaga was knocked down around six-fifteen in the evening near mile forty-nine on the Northern Highway and was pronounced dead on arrival at Orange Walk Hospital. Twenty-eight year old Carlos Montalvo, the driver of the minivan who killed Arriaga, has been charged with driving without due care and attention, manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct, as well as refusing to provide a urine sample.

Early Sunday morning yet another person was involved in a fight with two tons of metal, but in this accident it appears the man will live to tell the tale. Sebastian Cowo was walking along the Northern Highway in Orange Walk Town near the One-Stop gas station when around one-thirty he was hit by a white car, which sped away. Cowo suffered arm injuries and was taken to Orange Walk Hospital and later moved to the KHMH, where he remains in satisfactory condition. The hit and run driver has not yet been apprehended.

Also up north on Saturday, police discovered the body of a man believed to be the victim of another hit and run. The corpse of Miguel Castaneda was found approximately forty feet off the Northern Highway between mile seventy and seventy-one. He reportedly left home around seven p.m. heading for Corozal. Police are looking for clues.

A man from Independence Village is dead as the result of a traffic accident in Toledo. Twenty year-old Darwin Thompson lost control of the vehicle he was driving and it overturned near Monkey River on Sunday evening. Thompson was dead on arrival at Southern Regional Hospital. His mother, Christine Lozano, a passenger in the vehicle, received treatment for injuries at the same hospital.