Vehicles collide on Northern Highway
In news just in, four men nearly lost their lives this evening when two vehicles traveling in opposite directions collided at the Ladyville junction of the Northern Highway. While reports are sketchy at this time, people at the scene say they first heard the sound of tires screeching and then a loud crash. A brown car bearing Texas license plates and traveling towards Belize City apparently slammed into a white pickup truck that had just made a left turn into the airport road. One witness said the driver of the car, which was traveling at a high rate of speed, applied brakes when he saw the truck make the turn, but could not stop in time and slammed into the right passenger side of the vehicle. One of the first persons to arrive at the scene was a Ladyville resident who wishes to remain anonymous. He told us that he immediately rushed the driver of the truck and the occupants of the car to the B.D.F. Hospital in Ladyville.
Witness
“I hear the brakes from the car coming from the opposite direction, from the Northern Highway and ahm, the brakes and the horn… And sudden when I look, I sih wha? I hear the impact when I look it was the car and the pickup so I rushed to the scene and give dem assistance – tek they out and ker dem to the B.D.F. Hospital.”
Q: “You notice if the drivers or the passengers were seriously injured?”
Witness
“One of the passengers was seriously injured. That’s why I took him to the hospital.”
Q: “The passenger in the brown vehicle?”
Witness
“Yeah who was riding on the passenger seat.”
Q: “Where was he bleeding?”
Witness
“On his hand and his face.”
Ladyville police say that apart from the driver, two other people were traveling in the car, while there was only one person in the truck. No one was seriously injured in the accident.
