Three die in separate weekend traffic accidents
Three people lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. Reports to News Five indicate that around ten on Sunday morning, a Toyota Prado heading towards Belmopan was attempting to overtake a bus between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight on the Western Highway when it collided head on into a Toyota Corolla coming from the opposite direction. Kenroy Peyrefitte, who had been travelling in the car, died at the scene. The car’s driver, Adrian Aldana, and Christopher Hisinger, who was behind the wheel of the Prado, escaped with non-life threatening injuries. Police investigations into the crash continue.
Meanwhile, an outing turned tragic on Saturday night for a family from Burrell Boom. The Quiroz family was returning from a relative’s wedding in Hattieville around eleven on Saturday night but as they drove past the dumpsite on the Boom/Hattieville Road, Dinsdale Quiroz Senior spotted what he thought was a person laying across the road. He swerved to avoid running over the obstruction but as he did so, two of his three sons who were sitting in the pan of the truck, fell out. Twenty-two year old Mason and fifteen year old Dinsdale Junior suffered severe head and body injuries. They were rushed to the K.H.M.H. for treatment but Dinsdale succumbed to his wounds. Mason remains admitted to ward in stable condition. Investigations reveal that the object in the road was a pile of hay.
The weekend’s third fatal traffic accident took place on the San Antonio Road in the Corozal District late Friday night. According to police reports, around ten-thirty that night, twenty-one year old Santa Rita area resident Durbin Moreno was walking towards San Antonio Village when a black pickup truck travelling in the same direction knocked him down and kept going. When cops arrived at the scene, they saw Moreno lying face down with severe injuries to his head and left leg. His body was taken to the Corozal Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. Up to news time tonight the hit and run driver had yet to be arrested.
