A pair of siblings is tonight in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after the vehicle they were traveling in collided head-on with an SUV coming from the opposite direction. Just before four this morning, the traffic accident occurred near the cutoff to Vista del Mar on the Phillip Goldson Highway which […]
The driver of a delivery vehicle that fatally knocked down Melissa Andrews, as she rode on a motorcycle along with her husband from Sittee River to Silk Grass Village last Saturday, has been arrested in Belmopan. Julio Choc faces multiple charges stemming from the hit and run incident and police informed the media earlier today […]
Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in the south. On Saturday between miles eleven and twelve on the Southern Highway, thirty-five-year-old Allen Andrews of Sittee River was driving a motorcycle, accompanied by his wife Melissa Andrews, nee Murrillo. They were heading to Silk Grass village when, according to police, the couple was hit from […]
A recycler was killed over the weekend following a clean-up of the George Price Highway. Elroy Jones was on the job when he lost his life; he was run over by a truck he was travelling in. The Belize City man was putting in bags of trash into the trailer when he accidentally slipped, fell […]
The fatal accident that happened on the George Price Highway over the weekend took the lives of twenty-three-year-old Marta Vasquez, her eighteen-month-old daughter Deanna Castillo and her sister-in-law, thirty-year-old Samantha Castillo. The three victims were travelling in an SUV along with Vasquez’s other daughter six-year-old Angelique Castillo – who escaped the tragedy with two broken […]
A motorcyclist identified as thirty-three-year-old Sebastian Cucul died after a traffic accident this afternoon at the Red Bank village junction on the Southern Highway. This is the second fatality in that area following the death of Pablo Salam over the weekend. Official information from police has not been made available as of news time. However, […]
We often report on traffic accidents – they have become a staple in our newscast – but the one we will tell you about tonight will move you – it is a tragic accident that claimed the lives of three members of a family. A mother, her daughter and her sister-in-law all died on Saturday […]
There was another fatality on the highways. It happened at Mile thirty two on the Southern Highway near the Red Bank Junction. Thirty-four year old Paulino Pop, of San Roman Village was driving a Nissan pick-up truck heading to Independence. Five persons were in the pan of his vehicle. According to Pop, a Honda Element […]
Just before nine o’clock on Thursday night, as many Belizeans were returning home from the carnival road march in Orange Walk, a fatal road traffic accident occurred around mile twenty-six on the Philip Goldson Highway. Two vehicles, a Mazda pickup from Dangriga and a Toyota corolla car from Belize City flipped multiples times before coming […]
Meanwhile another staff member is the victim of a hit and run in the city. Master Control Operator Alvin usher and his daughter Brianna are lucky to be alive after they were knocked off their scooter around eight o’clock on Wednesday night. The father and daughter were riding on Coney Drive when upon reaching near […]
There was a near fatal hit and run on Saturday near our offices on Coney Drive. A forty-seven-year-old construction worker was knocked off his bicycle by a driver, who never stopped to render assistance. The impact sent Noel Reyes to the pavement causing head and body injuries. The Salvadoran national was rushed to the K.H.M.H. […]
A father of nine perished in a traffic accident at the intersection of Cemetery Road and East Ring Road in the nation’s capital. The accident happened on Tuesday afternoon and landed Jose Cucul in a drain on the right side of the road. Cucul was knocked down when he made a left turn on his […]
Just after seven on Wednesday night, there was a fatal traffic mishap on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Joaquin Villamil and his wife Julissa were travelling between miles fourteen and fifteen, when Joaquin lost control of the Isuzu trooper they were traveling in. The Orange Walk residents were heading from their home in Carmelita Village to […]
An elderly citizen was knocked down and killed this morning as he rode his cycle in Buena Vista village, Cayo District. Just before six-thirty a.m., twenty-year-old Jessica Miller, a U.S. citizen, told police that she was driving a SUV on the Buena Vista Road heading towards Spanish Lookout in a heavily foggy area when she […]
Well-known businessman Omar Ortiz left his home this morning en route to Galen University in Central Farm, Cayo, but he never arrived at his destination. Near the cut off to Mahogany Heights between miles thirty-one and thirty-two on the George Price Highway, Ortiz lost control of his vehicle on the slippery highway, flipped over and […]
Twenty-year-old Raymond Dominguez of Otro Benque Road, Orange Walk Town has been served with a notice of intended prosecution in respect of a fatal traffic mishap on the Philip Goldson Highway early on Saturday morning. According to police the body of fifty-two-year-old Raymond Hendricks of Trial Farm, Orange Walk was found lying next to a […]
There was a fatal traffic accident today on the Stann Creek Valley Road in southern Belize that claimed the life of a seven-year-old Dangriga student. Around eleven-thirty this morning, Janey Bailey and her grandmother, forty-seven-year-old Jacklyn Jacobs, alighted a passenger bus between miles three and four on the Hummingbird Highway. When Janey tried to cross […]
There was loss of life on the Hummingbird Highway this morning. Around six a.m., a terrible accident left one person dead and three others injured. Winston Dawson along with his co-works from Benny’s Home Center left the City en route to Punta Gorda for a delivery of construction material. But near mile thirty-eight near the […]
The Belize Road Safety Project was established in 2013 in direct response to increasing numbers of fatal traffic accidents across the country. The near-fifty-mile stretch between the entrance to Belize City and the entrance to the Hummingbird Highway approaching Belmopan, along the George Price Highway, was selected as a ‘demonstration corridor’ for infrastructural improvements including […]
But how is Belize doing in terms of reducing the incidence of road traffic accidents and their causes? There are still far too many reported, with many fatalities. But according to the Belize Road Safety Project, incidents have continued on a path of reduction on the George Price Highway over the past four years with […]
On Monday you heard about the fatal traffic accident that claimed the life of twenty-year-old Alma Flowers on the Philip Goldson Highway at the entrance to Crooked Tree Village. She got off a bus and was crossing the street when she was knocked down and killed by Belmopan resident, Leonel Del Valle. Today, villagers say […]
Three weeks ago Blackman Eddy resident Obed Mojano knocked down and killed Seine Bight resident Dorla Flores. The thirty-nine-year-old cook was struck along with forty-four year old Lavern Arzu and twenty-three year old Henry Augustine when Mojano, a technician, lost control of his grey Chevy Silverado and crashed into the trio. Placencia police confirmed to […]
A traffic accident over the weekend at the Crooked Tree Junction at mile thirty-one on the Phillip Goldson Highway claimed the life of twenty-year-old UB student Alma Flowers. Flowers was struck as she crossed the highway by a vehicle with Belmopan license plates traveling from Orange Walk towards Ladyville and driven at the time by […]
Two persons lost their lives in separate road traffic accidents on Thursday. Perhaps the more heart-wrenching of the two occurred just after four p.m. on the Iguana Creek Road in Spanish Lookout, Cayo. Thirty-three-year-old Stephen Hochstetler Senior ran over his fourteen-month-old daughter as he reversed the family’s SUV out of the yard. Hannah was rushed […]
There was another fatal accident overnight in the west. Sometime after nine p.m. on Thursday night, Police Constable Edgar Coh, who is attached to Roaring Creek Police Station, was on his way to a special duty assignment on his motorcycle. But upon reaching Camalote Village on the George Price Highway, he lost control of the […]
