A total of four persons died in separate traffic fatalities over the holiday weekend. Up north, two friends from the village of Guinea Grass were killed when their vehicle plunged into a creek and ended belly-up. It happened at about four-thirty on Monday morning when they were returning from Fire Burn. Family and friends are […]
Several police officers have lost their lives in recent road traffic accidents across the country. Over the weekend, the third person to perish in an R.T.A. was Police Constable Clifford Castillo. The cop had just gotten off duty, working at an event in Placencia, and was heading home on Saturday morning when he lost control […]
Also in the south, in the wee hours of Independence Day, Silk Grass resident Jeremiah Xipot perished in an accident on the Southern Highway. The deceased was en route to Dangriga in his pickup truck along with Victor Luna when he lost control of the vehicle. Xipot was flung to his death from the driver’s […]
There was a hit and run incident on Central American Boulevard this morning where a man riding a bicycle in the vicinity of Joe’s Meat Shop was struck by a vehicle travelling in the same direction towards the Cemetery Road Roundabout. The identity of the driver of the vehicle is not confirmed but he failed […]
Sixty-year-old Reginald Ruiz is tonight in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after he was hit from the rear by a police mobile. The accident happened between mile forty-four and forty-five on the George Price Highway at around five o’clock on Sunday evening. Ruiz was on a red Meilun tricycle traveling from Belmopan in the […]
According to A.C.P. Joseph Myvett, urine samples from both men will be collected and tested. Myvett says that Inspector Jones has been served with a notice of intended prosecution. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “What we know so far is that both vehicles were travelling in the same direction when the […]
There has been outpouring of grief following the untimely death of Rasheed Pollard. Pollard, who by all accounts was loved by many, perished this morning after celebrating his twenty-seventh birthday. He was driving to Belize City after partying in Ladyville when he collided into the concrete base of a light post near Mile Three on […]
There was another fatality; this time in southern Belize. As seen in this video, a motorcyclist reportedly lost control of his red Ninja motorcycle in the area of Golden Stream, some thirty miles out of Punta Gorda. He has been identified as Gregory Perez. He died on the spot at about two thirty this afternoon. […]
A corporal and his cousin perished in a horrible traffic accident over the weekend in the west leaving their families to grieve. Corporal Lenard Puc was driving a Geo Prizm; he was travelling along with Manuel Cabb when he lost control of his vehicle and collided into a pick-up truck driven by Oscar Rivero. The […]
An Orange Walk resident is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight, following a road traffic accident near the roundabout on Chetumal Street on Saturday morning. The extensively damaged Ford Excursion collided into the traffic circle damaging the decorative fencing before crashing into a fence on the right hand side of the Philip Goldson […]
Fifty-year-old Teakettle villager, Margarito “Pulu” Vanegas was struck by oncoming traffic on Thursday morning. A cargo truck was traveling on the George Price Highway, through Teakettle Village, when Vanegas was hit. Vanegas, who was reportedly consuming alcohol before the incident, was attempting to cross the highway when the truck which was travelling in a westerly […]
A Ladyville resident left work, but never made it home. Forty-six-year-old Jordy Bainton was riding his bicycle on Chetumal Street when he was run over and crushed by a heavy duty truck near the roundabout on the Philip Goldson Highway. The traffic fatality happened just after five in the evening at the heavily trafficked roundabout. […]
The family told News Five that the injuries they saw on Jordy Bainton’s body suggest that he had been dragged by the truck before it came to a stop on the roundabout. While his name has not been disclosed, the driver of the Mack Truck was initially detained, but later released. He has also been […]
An accident in downtown Belize City this morning caused a stir for commuters in the heavily trafficked area. But for two women, it was a scary ordeal when their SUV plunged into the Haulover Creek near the Swing Bridge around eight o’clock. A Good Samaritan, however, was joined by a fisherman and both bravely jumped […]
P.U.P. Leader John Briceño was released from Northern Medical Plaza over the weekend and is tonight at home recovering from injuries he sustained during a traffic accident on Friday morning in Rhaburn Ridge Village, Belize District. Briceño was being driven by Edwin Hill when his Toyota Prado SUV flipped several times near mile thirty-seven on […]
P.U.P. Leader John Briceño and his driver, Edwin Hill, are tonight recovering at the Northern Medical Plaza in Orange Walk Town after they were injured in a traffic accident earlier this morning. Around 9:45 a.m. when the party leader was en route to Belize City for work, they encountered an obstruction on the Philip Goldson […]
According to Chief of Staff Stuart Leslie, Edwin Hill has been driving the party leader for eleven years. He is an experienced, defensive driver and was trained by the Special Branch Unit of the Police Department in driving the party leader. Leslie says that the family and the party are confident that Hill would have […]
There has been an outpour of support for the speedy recovery of P.U.P. Party Leader John Briceño. In the aftermath of the accident, social media was abuzz with Belizeans expressing concern about his well-being. We are told that Prime Minister Dean Barrow also checked in on his political opponent and friend. A statement from the […]
There have been many reports made to the Ministry of Transport about speeding on the highways and the need for monitoring and enforcement. Just last Sunday, four Belize City men perished in a fatal accident on the Philip Goldson Highway between miles six and seven; police said that speeding was a factor. Earlier today, Lorena […]
A quadruple fatality occurred on the Philip Goldson Highway on Sunday evening and at news time, post-mortem examinations have just wrapped up as grieving relatives were camped outside the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. As many as four of five persons lost their lives instantly when the driver lost control of the car. […]
Police are also provided details of another fatality which occurred last Thursday on the Hummingbird Highway. It led to the death of Adar Awe. Awe was travelling with Dario Melendez in a white Ford Escape when about seven-fifteen p.m. Melendez lost control of the vehicle causing it to flip several times. Awe received severe head […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident along the Hummingbird Highway last evening between miles thirty-six and thirty-seven. The mishap involving a Ford Escape SUV happened shortly after six o’clock as forty-one-year-old Adar Awe, a sales representative of Orange Walk Town, and twenty-seven-year-old Dario Melendez of Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk District were traveling towards […]
Members of a family of five from southern Belize were injured during a accident this morning. It happened just outside Dangriga when the Rash family from the village of San Isidro was travelling in a SUV. Pablo Rash apparently spotted a police check point and applied brakes. It caused his vehicle to overturn and crash […]
A young lady was left shaken up, but fortunately escaped unhurt after a frightening accident this afternoon. Her small car was damaged when it was hit by a towhead and ended up under a trailer on Faber’s Road. Rhea Reyes unexpectedly collided with the truck which was heading to Central American Boulevard, coming from the […]
Long time educator and staff member of the Institute of Technical and Vocational Training died in the early hours of this morning. Roderick Elijio was found dead inside his crashed vehicle along the Philip Goldson Highway. Elijio was driving through Gardenia Village, heading towards to Belize City, when he ran off the road and crashed. […]
