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It’s been only a few months since the Coastal Plain Highway has been officially opened and commuters have been enjoying the comfort of the roadway to transit south. But today, a News Five team travelling the highway captured images of a tanker having crashed into a guardrail on the right hand side of the road […]
Written on September 13, 2023 | Posted in
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The statue of Belizean patriot, Philip Goldson that stands at the northern entrance to Belize City was knocked down on Saturday morning. That’s after police say a drunk driver caused a traffic accident that resulted in damage to the bust. The incident happened in the wee hours while the J’ouvert was about to kick off […]
Written on September 12, 2023 | Posted in
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A twenty-two-year-old Hattieville man is dead following a road traffic accident in the Orange Walk District. On the night of August eleventh, Adrian Pott was on his way home when one of the wheels on his pickup truck experienced a blowout just outside of Carmelita Village. As a result, Pott lost control of the vehicle […]
Written on September 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Three days after a fatal road traffic accident on the Boom/Hattieville Road, police have formally arrested and charged Jules Adderly for the crime of Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct and Drove Motor Vehicle Without Due Care and Attention. The forty-three-year-old Hattieville resident was behind the steering wheel of an SUV when he […]
Written on September 6, 2023 | Posted in
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One man is dead following a traffic accident in Belize City. Reports are that, sometime around five p.m. on Monday, sixty-seven-year-old Fidel Guardado fell from his bicycle on Vernon Street when a Bowen and Bowen Limited bus collided into him. As a result, the bus ran over Guardado causing his fatal injuries. Information to News […]
Written on September 5, 2023 | Posted in
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On Saturday night, a fatal accident on the Boom/Hattieville Road claimed the life of twenty-year-old Oscar Mayen Junior. Mayen Junior was heading to his house in the Tropical Park community on a motorcycle when an SUV travelling in the opposite direction reportedly came onto his lane and they collided head on. The impact flung Mayen […]
Written on September 4, 2023 | Posted in
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A hit and run in Belize City on Friday night has claimed the life of a Belize City resident. Fifty-two-year-old Radcliffe Codd was riding a bicycle along the Philip Goldson Highway when he was knocked down by someone driving a black Kia sports utility vehicle. The motorist and cyclist were both headed in the same […]
Written on August 28, 2023 | Posted in
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One Belmopan family is mourning the loss of a father and husband, following a fatal road traffic accident on Monday night. Forty-three-year-old Ruben Posadas, former Chairman of Armenia Village, had reportedly moved to Belmopan with his family not too long ago. Last night, he met his untimely demise, while on his way home from church. […]
Written on August 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Two men were killed in a traffic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway on Saturday morning. The mishap happened at the famous Mameyal Curve near the entrance to San Roman Village and involved a pickup and a motorcycle on which the two victims were travelling. The victims are two men who lived about twenty minutes […]
Written on August 21, 2023 | Posted in
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There was a robbery near mile twelve on the George Price Highway on Friday that resulted in an employee of Grace Kennedy Belize being injured by gunshots. Ellis Arkliss and his sidemen were en route to Belize City when they were ambushed by several persons inside a vehicle. The men fired multiple shots at the […]
Written on August 21, 2023 | Posted in
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Tonight, a police officer accused of drunk driving is out on bail. Thirty-nine-year-old Charles Garcia was allegedly driving a white Dodge Ram pickup truck under the influence when he collided into a police mobile that was parked in front of his home. Thirty-two-year-old PC Keron Garnett reported that on Sunday night, he responded to a […]
Written on August 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Glenda Estrada, a mother of three, including a newborn who is one month old, passed away this morning. Estrada was pregnant and was due to deliver her baby when she was critically injured during a hit and run in Ladyville in early July. While she was able to successfully deliver the neonate, she was paralyzed […]
Written on August 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Residents of Hopkins Village are reeling from a fatal traffic accident that claimed the life of six-year-old Makaya Magdaleno. The little girl had just left home on Main Street and was heading to her sister’s house in the southern part of the community when a gas truck from Lucas Gas Company knocked her down. The […]
Written on August 9, 2023 | Posted in
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A little girl was knocked down and killed in Hopkins Village today. Six-year-old Makaya Magdaleno was reportedly riding a bicycle on Main Street and was heading towards her house on the northern part of the village around noon. That was when a gas truck reportedly knocked her down. The child was rushed to the Southern […]
Written on August 8, 2023 | Posted in
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New footage from Sunday night’s deadly collision following a high-speed chase involving police in Orange Walk Town and a pair of men on a motorcycle has surfaced. Tonight, we revisit the story of how a twenty-year-old father of one lost his life following the incident. Jesus Sacul, a deliveryman of that northern municipality, died after […]
Written on August 2, 2023 | Posted in
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A thirty-one-year old man is dead following a traffic accident on the San Estevan Road in the Orange Walk District. According to Police, Edwin Ramirez was riding his motorcycle when a Ford F-150 collided into him. He was flung from the bike and died at the scene. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hilberto Romero, tells us […]
Written on July 17, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin our newscast tonight with a tragedy up north where two persons lost their lives in a fatal road traffic accident. It happened around four-thirty this morning, near San Antonio Village in Orange Walk District. Investigation has revealed that a police vehicle, driven by Jose Paz, ordered the driver of a dump truck to […]
Written on July 7, 2023 | Posted in
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A little boy was knocked down and killed in Corozal Town shortly after midday on Sunday. It happened just after the seven-year-old and his family had left church and were riding their bicycles on Third Street, heading home. Today, Asuceli Chan told News Five via phone that her son, Juan Osorio, was riding his bicycle, […]
Written on July 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Today Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hilberto Romero shared the details of the accident with the media. The accident happened shortly after midday on Sunday. The impact was so severe that the little boy died before he reached the hospital. Romero said that the driver of the vehicle is detained and that upon the completion of […]
Written on July 3, 2023 | Posted in
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A Notice of Intended Prosecution has been served on a bus driver after fatally knocking down a cyclist in Lemonal Village over the weekend. Thirty-seven-year-old Juan Charlesworth lost his life on Saturday when he was ran over by a commuter bus driven by Elvis Dawson. The tragic incident happened along the road leading to the […]
Written on June 26, 2023 | Posted in
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We have been reporting on a number of fatal road traffic accidents on major highways across the country. In fact, in last week alone five persons lost their lives in separate vehicle collisions; three in one incident on the Philip Goldson Highway. Speeding and overtaking on curves are among the contributing factors. Transport Minister Rodwell […]
Written on June 20, 2023 | Posted in
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An elderly man is dead after he was knocked off his bicycle in the Cayo District on Wednesday evening. Police say that shortly after four p.m., they were summoned to the Bullet Tree Road where they saw a Ford F-150 pickup truck and the victim’s bicycle on the road. The driver of the vehicle, sixty-one-year-old […]
Written on June 15, 2023 | Posted in
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In Monday’s newscast, we reported on the triple fatality on the Philip Goldson Highway that claimed the life of three Davis’ women. That road traffic accident occurred on Friday night when the driver of the pickup truck they were travelling in lost control of the vehicle and careened off the highway and crashed. Even before […]
Written on June 13, 2023 | Posted in
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We begin tonight’s newscast with a triple fatality that occurred on Friday night on the Philip Goldson Highway near Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute at mile ten. Kurtis Belisle was the driver of a pickup truck and traveling along with him were the Davis sisters Virginia and Dorothy and Virginia’s daughter, Torrie. Belisle was reportedly […]
Written on June 12, 2023 | Posted in
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An employee of Blancaneaux Lodge lost her life in a massive fire that engulfed a sports utility vehicle on Sunday night in the Cayo District. Irene Gonzalez was driving alone along the San Antonio Road when the SUV went up in flames. It is unclear whether the thirty-year-old set the vehicle on fire or the […]
Written on June 12, 2023 | Posted in
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