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Cargo Truck Overturns Near Armenia, One Fatality is Reported

There was traffic fatality early this morning on the Hummingbird Highway. It happened when a delivery truck transporting dry goods and food items, collided with a pickup truck and overturned near the village of Armenia. The driver of the truck belonging to German Vega and Sons Limited, was trapped inside and perished before he could […]

Three persons injured in a hit and run

There was a hit and run traffic accident on Sunday evening on the Hummingbird Highway in Belmopan, and it left three persons injured. The driver of the vehicle fled the scene, police are looking for him. A.C.P. Joseph Myvett shared the details at today’s Police press briefing in Belmopan.   ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National  […]

Fender Bender Victim Says Vehicle Owner Refuses to Settle Matter

A man, who was involved in a fender bender about a month ago, says that the person responsible doesn’t want to own up to his responsibility. Dennis Wright says he was behind the wheel of his van in Belize City when another van rear-ended him. He visited our studios today to say that he has […]

RTA on Placencia Road Kills One

There was a fatal traffic accident on the Placencia Road that has left one man dead. Police say that on Tuesday, forty-one-year-old Roberto Cordova lost his life when his motorcycle and car collided. At this time investigators are trying to determine what caused the accident. Here’s more from Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero.   Sr. Supt. […]

3 Injured in Vehicular Accident in Corozal

Three persons were injured in a traffic accident in Corozal Town. It happened this morning at around five-thirty at the northern entrance in the area of Santa Rita. A vehicle carrying three persons collided into a pole on the side of the road. The driver of vehicle was trapped inside and had to be extracted […]

Fatal Accident Claims 2 Lives

A fatal accident in the south claimed two lives on Saturday morning just after six. Police say that Jose Cal, the driver of the pickup truck, may have fallen asleep which caused him to lose control of the truck, which overturned. The two passengers in the pan of the truck, forty-eight-year-old Pashal Teul and twenty-four-year-old […]

Well Known Businessman Richard Harrison Killed in Accident

The grieving family of Richard Harrison is beginning the painful preparations of his funeral in San Ignacio. The well-known businessman was killed on Thursday in a freak accident on the George Price Highway. Harrison was heading to Belmopan; he was killed when lumber from a flatbed truck landed on his vehicle. His sudden and tragic […]

Ruta Maya Founder, Richard Harrison, Perishes in RTA Near Ontario

Well-known businessman, Richard Harrison perished in a traffic accident this afternoon. He was travelling in his SUV when pieces of lumber from a flatbed truck landed on his vehicle. The Cayo businessman died on impact. Harrison and his brothers had business interests in Big H Company; he was involved in a number of initiatives to […]

Bus with University Students Overturns on Philip Goldson Highway

There was a minor road traffic accident around ten this morning. A school bus driven by Lucas Navarro was carrying medical students from Columbus Central University School of Medicine when it overturned near mile seven on the Philip Goldson Highway. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured but a few students suffered minor injuries.

Fatal Accident in Indian Creek Village

In southern Belize, there was a fatal road traffic accident in Indian Creek Village. Police say a notice of intended prosecution has been issued to Guillermo Cus and blood samples taken in the wake of the incident that took the life Miguel Sam. Sam, who is reportedly a relative of Cus, was knocked off his […]

Clear the Land Crashes on George Price Highway

Earlier this afternoon, Belize Rural North Area Representative Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro got into a road traffic accident along the George Price Highway.  News Five understands that the Minister of National Emergency Management was traveling inside a pickup truck when it collided with a sports utility vehicle near mile four.  The front of the […]

Man Charged Three Years Later for Double Fatal RTA

An Orange Walk man has been charged for a double fatal RTA that happened over three years ago. According to police, Martin Ramos was arrested and charged with two counts of causing death by careless conduct. The charges stem from an accident that happened in October 2016 along the August Pine Ridge and San Felipe […]

Ricardo Oh Knocked Down and Killed on the Hummingbird Highway

Fifty-four-year-old Ricardo Oh lost his life on Christmas Eve while riding his bicycle near mile twenty-five on the Hummingbird Highway. At around six o’clock in the evening, Oh was hit by a white Chevrolet cargo truck that was being driven at the time by thirty-one-year-old Alexander Swift of Dangriga Town. When police arrived on the scene […]

Traffic Fatalities Spike in 2019

Aside from homicides, loss of lives due to traffic accidents was a main cause of death during the year. Tonight News Five’s Isani Cayetano revisits those horrible accidents, in which so far more than seventy persons have succumbed. Here is that story.   Isani Cayetano, Reporting Road traffic fatalities in 2019 have claimed the lives […]

Belize City Man Dies in Traffic Accident in Santa Elena Town

A number of persons lost their lives in traffic fatalities. Twenty two year old Jaime Enrique Williams lost his life as a result of a traffic accident on Sunday night. Just before ten o’clock, Williams was driving a brown Honda C.R.V. S.U.V. on La Loma Luz Boulevard in Santa Elena Town when he lost control, […]

One Dead in Bullet Tree Road Traffic Accident

A man tragically lost his life on Saturday morning after he was ran over on the Bullet Tree Road, Cayo. It was about twelve-forty when police in San Ignacio Town received reports of a fatal traffic accident. At the scene, police saw thirty-year-old Manuelito Ye motionless on the road. He was rushed to the Western […]

Dangriga Resident Loses Life on Stann Creek Valley Road

Dangriga resident, sixty year old Lydia Weller, was also a victim of a traffic accident on Friday afternoon on the Stann Creek Valley Road. That fatality happened at around three-thirty on mile thirteen. A grey Toyota Highlander collided with a white van. Weller was inside the Highlander which was being driven at the time Beverly […]

A truck laden with electrical poles overturns on the Hummingbird

There was also another traffic incident on the Hummingbird Highway. Around two thirty this afternoon, a truck transporting electrical poles overturned and ended belly up. The driver was reportedly trapped inside the vehicle. The incident caused an interruption of vehicular traffic.

Fatal hit-and-run accident claims one life in the south

Two persons died in separate fatal accidents over the weekend. A man was killed in a hit-and-run on the Southern Highway on Saturday. The fatal accident happened near the Kendal Village around four in the afternoon. Dangriga police responded to the scene where they found the victim, a resident of Maya Center, already dead.   […]

San Narciso Villager Dies in Road Traffic Accident

In another traffic fatality, fifty-year-old Epifiano Chan lost his life on Sunday evening. The San Narciso Village resident was driving his pickup truck on the San Narciso/ San Victor Road when the incident occurred. A.C.P. Myvett says that Chan lost control of the vehicle and died on the spot.   ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National […]

Another Tourist Dies in Separate Road Traffic Accident

A red Ford van carrying a family of American tourists on Thursday afternoon flipped several times on the Philip Goldson Highway in the Orange Walk District. Seventy-seven-year-old Carolyn Moxley Gillis, a resident from the state of Georgia, was flung out of the vehicle between miles forty-one and forty-two. She died instantly. Also in the van […]

Man Knocked Down and Killed on Southern Highway

A second fatal traffic accident was recorded on Thursday, this time in the south. Police were called out to Santa Cruz Village in the Stann Creek District where they saw a Hispanic man lying dead on the Southern Highway. The unidentified victim was knocked down and killed while riding his bicycle between miles twenty-four and […]

More Highway Patrol to be Implemented

The number of deaths associated with recent road traffic accidents is alarming. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that the police department will be working diligently to enforce highway laws in an attempt to prevent further accidents.   Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “We are seeing that the traffic fatalities on our highways are becoming […]

Police Department to Give Edwardo Wade Official Funeral

Sixty-seven-year-old retired police officer Edwardo Wade was among the seven persons who perished in the horrific traffic accident on Wednesday afternoon. Wade was inside a red SUV which was being driven by his daughter, Lourdes Wade, who also died along with Mayra Alcoser.  The trio was heading back to Belmopan when Lourdes attempted to overtake […]

7 Persons Dead in Horrific Road Traffic Accident

It has been a deadly twenty-four hours on the country’s major thoroughfares where three separate road traffic accidents have claimed as many as nine lives.  Seven persons are confirmed dead as a result of the horrendous traffic accident on Wednesday afternoon along the George Price Highway, near Hattieville. Lourdes Wade was driving a red Chevy Sports […]