BAHA inspector dies in Southern Hwy. accident

An inspector employed at the Belize Agricultural Health Authority is dead following a traffic accident on the Southern Highway. The fatal accident occurred around six-thirty on Thursday evening between miles forty-six and forty-seven near the Swasey Bridge. Police say the inspector, forty year old Barrington Johnson, was driving a blue Toyota 4-Runner heading to Punta Gorda, when he lost control of the vehicle and flipped several times as he approached the bridge. As a result, Johnson was killed on the spot and two passengers traveling with him, thirty-nine year old Edward Nunez and thirty-four year old Francis Arzu received varying degrees of injuries. Arzu was treated for minor injuries and released but Nunez is in a critical condition at the Southern Regional Hospital.