Construction got underway earlier today to repair a tomb that was destroyed over the Easter weekend at the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. While no one was seriously injured when a vehicle collided into the grave, the burial chamber on the edge of the George Price Highway was completely destroyed. It is not the first time that […]
A large number of deaths have been as a result of motorcycle collisions in the past week; at least eight persons perished on major highways, including the death of two couples. The latest victim is a Guatemalan motorcyclist who lost his life this morning on San Pedro after he crashed head on into a lamppost […]
There’s another victim of a traffic accident. Paraiso villager Jose Cortez is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was knocked off his motorcycle by a bus driven by Peter Mendoza, an employee of Silva’s Bus Line. The incident occurred between miles eighty-five and eighty-six on the Philip Goldson Highway in Corozal Town. […]
A man is in the K.H.M.H. in a critical condition tonight after he was involved in a road traffic accident. According to reports, forty-nine-year-old Jose Cortez of Paraiso village was driving his motorcycle this morning between miles eighty-five and eighty-six when a Silva bus travelling in the same direction from the northern border to Corozal […]
Last week, we reported on the death of seven persons as a result of vehicular collisions; four were motorcyclists. Tonight, we can report that another person has perished as a result of a motorcycle accident. Walter Loyo died early this morning at the K.H.M.H. where he had been receiving treatment since March twenty-fourth. The twenty-eight-year-old […]
At this afternoon’s press brief, police also issued official comment on the fatal road traffic accident in the west that claimed the life of nineteen-year-old motorist, Luis Cruz. Last Thursday evening, Cruz collided into a vehicle as he rode his motorcycle along Loma Luz Boulevard in Santa Elena Town. His Lifan motorcycle was extensively damaged […]
Another person lost his life in a traffic fatality bringing the number of deaths to seven in the past week. The latest victim is a nineteen-year-old motorist who collided into a vehicle as he rode his motorcycle along Loma Luz Boulevard on Thursday evening in Santa Elena Town. Luis Enrique Cruz was injured and succumbed […]
As many as six persons died over the weekend in separate traffic accidents across the country. Police are preparing to charge two persons in respect of the couple that killed in Spanish Lookout. Irene and Abram Penner left seven children behind when their motorcycle was rear-ended by a van on route forty. The driver of […]
As many as six persons died in traffic accidents, making the past weekend one of the deadliest on the highways. The deaths were reported in southern, central and western Belize. Tonight, we start with a crash in Spanish Lookout where a Mennonite couple perished, leaving seven children behind. Husband and wife, Abram and Irene Penner, […]
In the south, Carlos Larios was knocked down and killed on Friday night. It happened between miles twenty-five and twenty-six on the Hummingbird Highway. The twenty-six-year-old Belize City resident was crossing the road when a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck hit Larios, killing him instantly. The driver of the pickup, Heinrich Froese, has been served with […]
The youngest victim in the spate of traffic fatalities is sixteen-year-old Jose Marquez. The Santa Cruz Village was knocked down between miles twenty and twenty-one on the Southern Highway as he rode his bicycle in the village. William Burke has been served with a notice of intended prosecution after he hit Marquez from behind. While […]
From the south to the Belize District where two separate fatal traffic accidents claimed the lives of a father of one and a young woman. A collision involving yet another motorcycle and a pickup up truck in Scotland Halfmoon ended the life of twenty-eight-year-old carpenter, Vladimir Aguilar. Aguilar never got to his home as a […]
The second traffic fatality in the Belize District occurred just before six p.m. on Sunday. A couple travelling on a motorcycle collided into a concrete barrier near the construction site of the new connecting road in the Eight Mile Community. Walter Lobo and his girlfriend, Zinnia Ayala were heading to Hattieville when Loyo lost control […]
There were six road fatalities this weekend and four of those accidents involved motorcycles. The road traffic accidents are not new, but there has been a rise in accidents in recent weeks. The accidents are a concern to the Belize Police Department and so they are embarking on a media sensitization campaign to educate motorists […]
Two separate fatal road crashes happened on the Hummingbird and Southern Highways in the past few days. The fatal hit and run on the Hummingbird claimed the life of sixty-three-year-old Pablo Hernandez of Las Flores on Sunday night. The other happened in Hickatee Village, Toledo on Saturday night where twenty-one-year-old Adrian Choco was knocked down […]
On the heels of a fatal traffic accident on Wednesday night, another person has lost his life on the Southern Highway. Police say Adrian Choco was knocked down and killed around eleven on Saturday night in Hicatee Village, Toledo. A.C.P. Joseph Myvett shares the details of the accident. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes […]
Back to Punta Gorda where a sixteen-year-old student of Forest Home was injured in a traffic accident. Evalenda Pau is in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after she was reportedly run over by a bus at around nine o’clock this morning. The bus driver was reserving onto the highway when she was knocked down. […]
A Belize City man was one of two persons who lost his life on Sunday evening in traffic fatalities. Thirty-eight-year-old John Bennett was on his motorcycle en route to Belize City when he reportedly crashed head-on into oncoming traffic on the George Price Highway. The motorcycle, we are told, was extensively damaged and Bennett was […]
Sixty-two-year-old Guatemalan National Excequiel Lopez Leon was knocked down and killed on Saturday night at around seven-twenty. Police say that thirty-four-year-old Shaun Dortch of San Pedro Village, Corozal District was driving his Mazda SUV from Orange Walk to Belize City when he knocked down Leon, who was riding his bicycle, in the same direction. Leon […]
A traffic accident on the Burrell Boom Road on Sunday evening left six persons injured, but fortunately, there were no fatalities. Sidney Humphreys was behind the wheel of an Isuzu Rodeo when he reportedly lost control near the cutoff to Bacab Eco Park on the Burrell Boom Road. The SUV careened off the road and […]
A post-mortem conducted today on eighty-seven-year-old Gudelia Estevez lists the particulars of death as sudden non-cardiac death with acute pulmonary edema with saddle pulmonary embolism. But the death certificate also lists displaced fractures of the leg, as well as blunt force injuries as a result of being hit by a motor vehicle. The eighty-seven-year-old great-grandmother […]
Now to a traffic fatality…eighty-seven-year-old Gudiela Estevez passed away this morning, exactly two weeks after she and her grandson, eight-year-old Nikolai Tun, were knocked down at the corner of King Street and Amara Avenue in Belize City. Estevez was taking her grandson to Saint Ignatius Primary School on February twenty-second when they were hit by […]
Shortly after midday, a fatal traffic accident occurred near Bacalar, a popular spot across the northern border frequented by Belizeans. So far it is known that Belizean, Talmy Smith, was injured; he was a passenger in a vehicle with Belize license plates C38118 which overturned at Buena Vista. According to a news report, the vehicle […]
A road traffic accident in the city has left a minor and his great-grand mother in the hospital. Police say forty-nine-year old Martin Franklin Reyes was driving at the corner of King Street and Amara Avenue when he hit the two pedestrians, an eighty-seven-year-old woman and her eight year old great-grandson who attends Saint Ignatius […]
Earlier this month, a woman lost her life jumping the barriers in the middle of the Philip Goldson Highway. The pedestrian, Marlena Mortis, was knocked down and killed as she tried to get to the other side of the highway. Residents in the area have complained bitterly about the lack of consideration for pedestrians who […]
