Belize - Belize News - Channel5Belize.com - Great Belize Productions - Belize Breaking News
Home » Auto Accidents Featured People & Places Regional / International You are currently browsing entries filed in: Auto Accidents Featured People & Places Regional / International

Belizean Nurse Killed in Car Wreck in North Carolina

While the death of Paz has not been officially confirmed, tonight we can report that another Belizean has been killed in the U.S.  She is thirty-five-year-old Jacqueline Dawson. She too is from San Pedro Town and died on Sunday as well. Dawson lost her life in a traffic accident in Wilmington, North Carolina. Online reports […]

Cowo Sisters Perish in Road Traffic Accident in Succotz; Driver Charged

Also in the west, two sisters perished in a horrible accident on Saturday morning. Cindy and Jarinet Cowo were travelling in the vehicle of fifty-three-year-old Belmopan contractor Carlos Martinez heading to San Jose Succotz Village when they met their death. Martinez picked up the sisters from their house and went partying in Benque Viejo.  He […]

Oscar Coc Loses His Life in Road Traffic Accident

A thirty-two-year-old resident of Santa Elena Town lost his life in the early hours of Saturday morning after being knocked down by a vehicle on Eden Drive.  Oscar Coc was reportedly walking along that stretch of road when a motorist ran him over.  The driver of the vehicle, identified as George Dawson, told police that […]

Carmelita Villager Becomes Victim of Fatal Hit and Run

Traffic accidents in the north, west and south claimed the lives of three persons. On Thursday night at about nine-thirty when Belizeans were getting ready to celebrate, a hit and run accident happened at mile forty-one on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Twenty-two-year-old Caroline Riverol from Carmelita was knocked down by a truck. Riverol was walking […]

62-Year-Old Killed in Hit and Run

There was also a fatal road traffic accident in southern Belize. It occurred in the village of Buena Vista on the Southern Highway and it was also a hit and run where the victim was left on the highway. Sixty-two-year-old Guatemalan farmer, Juan Pop was knocked down and killed between miles forty-four and forty-five.   […]

Man Jumps from Bus to His Death

And in the west, there was a third victim of a traffic accident.  Carlos Jimenez, a twenty-four-year-old Honduran national, leapt to his death from a moving passenger bus on around three-thirty p.m. last Thursday.  It is not known why he tried to evade the police checkpoint, but it cost him his life. Assistant Commissioner of […]

PC Garcia Recovering After Pickup Truck Hit Him

While those road traffic incidents were fatal, a police officer is lucky to be alive after a speeding pickup truck hit him during a routine check point in the Red Creek area of Santa Elena. The incident occurred on Friday night around seven o’clock; Police Constable Cruz Garcia was injured by the pickup.  It is […]

Ranchito Resident Dies in Accident in the North

There was further loss of life, but on the highways. A traffic accident in the north claimed the life of a young woman in the early hours of this morning. Police responded to an accident in Ranchito Village where they saw a car overturned. The driver, twenty-five-year-old Ashanti Rowland, lost control of her vehicle, which […]

Seine Bight Man Perishes in RTA

Another fatal traffic accident claimed the life of sixty-two-year-old Seine Bight resident, Japhet Marin. On Saturday, sometime around nine-thirty in the morning, police were called out to an area between miles twenty-three and twenty-four in Middlesex Village in southern Belize.  Marin was one of two persons traveling in the vehicle, which was found off the […]

Police Inching Closer to Finding Out Who was the Driver in Double Fatalities Down South

Siblings Anthony and Jamie Archer perished on impact during a deadly road traffic accident along the San Antonio Road in the Toledo District on the evening of July twenty-fourth.  The brothers were along with two other young men inside a Toyota Corolla when the driver of the vehicle lost control and overturned multiple times before […]

Belizean Licensed Vehicle Involved in Accident in Mexico

A Belizean woman was among four persons injured in a traffic accident near Playa del Carmen. According to reports from the area, she was travelling in a van that was involved in a collision with another vehicle bearing Mexican license plates. It happened on Sunday night at the entrance of Nohbec, where the offending Mexican […]

Fatal RTA Claims the Lives of 2 Cousins

A fatal traffic accident claimed the lives of two cousins in the north. Kairo and Henry Cob, both from San Victor in Corozal, died just after midday on Sunday. The two men were on a motorcycle on the San Juan Road when they crashed into an SUV traveling in the opposite direction. That vehicle was […]

Bullet Tree Resident Perishes 5 Days after Motorcycle Collision with Parked Vehicle

A third person perished on Friday after a traffic accident which occurred over a week ago. Yuri Moralez was riding his motorcycle when he crashed into a parked vehicle on Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio.  The impact sent the twenty-three-year-old to the pavement; he received severe head and body injuries which led to his […]

San Jose Villager Knocked Down and Killed

A villager from San Jose, Corozal was knocked down and killed on Thursday night sometime after seven o’clock. Sixty-three-year-old cane farmer Ermitiano Gonzalez was walking along the Phillip Goldson Highway when between miles sixty-three and sixty-four, he was stuck by a vehicle heading from Orange Walk to Corozal. When police responded to the scene of […]

Xaibe Villager is Victim of Fatal Hit and Run

A man was knocked down and killed along the Philip Goldson Highway over the weekend. Police say it was a hit and run that claimed the life of Virgilio Mena on Sunday sometime around nine in the night. There are not many details about the deadly traffic accident, but police say they are following several […]

Clemente Constancia Killed in Hit & Run in San Ignacio

A San Ignacio resident was killed in a fatal road traffic accident on the Cahal Pech Road on Wednesday night. Clemente Constancia was found dead on the side of the road around five a.m. this morning, with visible signs of him having been hit by a vehicle hours earlier around eleven-forty-five p.m. But the driver […]

Punta Gorda Police Continue to Investigate Double Fatality on San Antonio Road

The family of Jamie and Anthony Archer continue to grieve the tragic deaths of the two brothers. The siblings were heading to Punta Gorda when their car ran off the road and flipped several times causing their death. Two other persons were travelling in the vehicle; they survived and remain in the Southern Regional Hospital […]

A Deadly Accident on the Southern Highway Claims the Lives of the Brothers Archer

Two brothers tragically lost their lives on Tuesday night on the San Antonio Road in southern Belize. Jamie and Anthony Archer were travelling along with two other persons heading to their village in a small car. The driver of car unfortunately lost control of the vehicle; it flipped multiple times causing the instant death of […]

Corozal Resident Died in Fatal RTA in Quintana Roo

Today, there is confirmation from relatives and friends that the man who perished in a fatal traffic accident in Quintana Roo, Mexico was a resident of Paraiso Village in Corozal. The Belmopan Trojan Basketball team was also traveling on an ADO bus from Cancun en route to Veracruz when the accident occurred; several of the […]

Belmopan Basketball Team on Bus Involved in Fatal RTA in Quintana Roo

A basketball athlete from the Belmopan Trojans team is tonight hospitalized in Chetumal after the passenger bus the team was traveling in collided into a truck near Bacalar, Quintana Roo. The team was returning to Belize from Cancun when the ADO bus collided into the rear of a Ford truck that was parked on the […]

A Pilot Escapes Grave Injury After Crash Landing Crop Duster in More Tomorrow

There was a report of a downed aircraft this morning in the vicinity of More Tomorrow in the Cayo District.  On arrival at the scene of the crash, police discovered that it was a crop duster which was being used in the industrial spraying of rice fields in the area.  According to Assistant Commissioner of […]

A Motorcyclist Loses His Life on the Hummingbird Highway

Twenty-three-year-old Alberto Adelfonso lost his live on Sunday in a fatal road traffic accident along the Hummingbird Highway.  The Dangriga resident was a riding a motorcycle and upon nearing miles twenty and twenty-one he collided into a commuter bus traveling in the opposite direction.  The massive impact extensively damaged the motorbike and flung Adelfonso to […]

Female Tapir Knocked Down and Killed on Boom/Hattieville Road

Reports spread like wildfire today that a tapir had been killed on the Boom/Hattieville Road. An investigation carried out by the Belize Tapir Project has since revealed that the young female adult mountain cow was struck by a speeding vehicle sometime between three and four p.m. on Thursday as it was crossing the road. Despite […]

OW South P.U.P. Area Representative Faces Lawsuit from Arana Family

Orange Walk South P.U.P. Area Representative, Jose Abelardo Mai, is before Supreme Court Justice Courtenay Abel. The lawsuit against Mai stems from a traffic accident which occurred on the Phillip Goldson Highway on April first, 2016.  Mai knocked down fifty-nine-year-old Julia Arana while driving through Trial Farm Village in the Orange Walk District. Arana was […]

RTA Claims Second Victim in Succotz

Thirty-two-year-old Sandra Garcia succumbed to injuries sustained in fatal traffic accident that happened on June seventeenth. The driver of the vehicle Neidy Cifuentes died shortly after the accident, while her two passengers, Garcia and her nine-year-old daughter Ziyanda Tzib, were hospitalized. Garcia remained in a critical condition ever since and passed last week Thursday which […]