A family of four is admitted to the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga in stable condition following a traffic mishap. Forty-seven-year-old Benjamin Paul, an American national, was driving a black Jeep Liberty registered to Barefoot Rental between Dangriga and Belmopan. He was accompanied by thirty-six-year-old Katherine O’Brien and two children Rafael, aged six, and Carmelita, […]
A teenager remains in a coma tonight after she was knocked down in Orange Walk sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. Sixteen-year-old Monique Morey was out partying with a relative on Sunday and while heading home, she was struck by a vehicle a short distance away from her grandmother’s house in San Andres Layout, […]
The teenager remains hospitalized in a critical condition. She has swelling on the brain and remains in coma after she was left for dead. The family says that they don’t want any problems with the driver who hit Monique, but are appealing for assistance with the medical bills which are mounting. Frederic Morey, Father […]
There were several traffic accidents over the weekend. The Chetumal Street Bridge opened for traffic over two years ago and it took some four point five million dollars to do it – but a portion of the bridge was extensively damaged over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, a vehicle slammed into the bridge and caused […]
A road traffic accident at the Burrell Boom Junction on Saturday night has left one man hospitalized. Around ten-thirty that night, police responded and upon arrival, saw an extensively damaged van on the left side of the highway and a motorcycle in the middle of the road. According to police, the van which was driven […]
An accident early this morning claimed the life of thirty-nine-year-old Dorla Flores, a cook of Seine Bight village, Stann Creek District. According to police nineteen year old Obed Mojano of Blackman Eddy village, Cayo District, was driving a Chevrolet Silverado from Seine Bight south toward Placencia when upon reaching the area near the end of […]
On Tuesday, police formally arrested and charged forty-eight-year-old Ernesto Cadle for manslaughter by negligence and causing the death by careless conduct of sixty-two-year-old Benedicto Mendez. The Belizean taxi driver of Cowpen Village was also slapped with charges of Driving an Unlicensed Motor Vehicle, Driving a Motor Vehicle with Alcohol Concentration above the Prescribed Limit and […]
There were a number of traffic mishaps over the week; two which were fatal. Up north, Corozal police continue to investigate a traffic fatality on the San Victor Road. The driver of a Mazda pick-up collided into the rear of a parked Ford Ranger pick-up truck, losing control and running off the road. The impact […]
The other fatal RTA occurred on Saturday afternoon in Stann Creek. Police arrived on the scene near the junction to the Bocawina National Park in Silk Grass where they saw the body of eighteen-year-old U.S. National Devin Robert Merriell. According to police, Merriell who was riding a rented motor cycle came out of the Bocawina […]
Police continue to investigate a fatal road traffic accident in Belize City. Thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Humes was driving a Wingle pick-up truck into Belize City from Ladyville on Sunday morning around four-thirty a.m. upon reaching the area in front of Caribbean Tires on the Philip Goldson Highway, around mile three and a half; he hit a […]
Two persons were injured following the collision of two motorcycles on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Just after five p.m. on Monday, police were called out between miles eight and nine on the highway at the intersection with the Airport Road where two motorcycles driven at the time by twenty-one-year-old Orlando Cowo and thirty-five year old […]
Former Minister Elvin Penner is home tonight on bail; this afternoon he was arraigned for manslaughter by negligence of Kenrick Myvette, a motorist who was killed on Friday night. Penner was heading to San Ignacio in his SUV and Myvette was coming from San Ignacio on his motorbike when the collision took place on the […]
Press Office Director Dorian Pakeman is back on the job, after being suspended in the wake of a fatal traffic accident that claimed the life of Gardenia resident Dean Dawson in 2016. The deadly mishap took place on the Philip Goldson Highway while the mechanic was riding his bicycle along the stretch of road near […]
Still in the west, twenty-six-year-old Fabiola Velasquez lost her life in a traffic mishap in the early hours of Sunday morning while riding a motorcycle along the Valley of Peace Road. The young lady was returning from an event in that western community when she overtook a team of policemen who were also traveling along […]
Another charge made by the family, believing that foul play may have been involved in the death of their loved one, is that the officers left behind evidence of an attempted cover-up. Those pieces of items include a pair of bloody surgical gloves. According to Senior Superintendent Gillett, the officers were merely sloppy in disposing […]
Twenty-six-year-old Naomi Abigail Taylor, a primary school teacher of Dangriga, lost her life on Thursday evening while riding a bicycle on Ecumenical Drive. Taylor was heading to her mother’s house when a motorcycle driven by twenty-two-year-old Michael Estero collided into the back wheel of the male beach cruiser bicycle. She fell onto the concrete street […]
An Orange Walk man says he is lucky to be alive tonight following a traffic accident on the Yo Creek Road on Saturday afternoon. Thirty-six year old Einer Toloza of the Louisiana area was test-driving a vehicle that he had been working on but lost control and ran into the safety railing a mile from […]
Earlier today, pictures surfaced on social media of a police pickup, extensively damaged to the rear and front portions. A late evening release by the department states that a police officer attached to the San Ignacio Formation parked the Ford F-150 Pickup Truck in front of the Police Station on King Street when a Chevy […]
A traffic accident on Thursday night claimed the life of thirty-three-year-old Rigoberto Coba of Guinea Grass, Orange Walk District. It happened on the Corozal Cane Traffic Road near BELCOGEN. Coba, who is a voluntary Special Constable, was travelling on a motorcycle from Orange Walk to Belize City when he reportedly crashed into trailers that were […]
Four drivers were convicted on April twenty-eighth, 2017, at the Punta Gorda Town Magistrate’s Court of offences under the transport laws. The cases were brought by Cesar Muschamp, Traffic Warden attached to the Department of Transport, Toledo. Rafael Novelo of Westline Bus pleaded guilty to failure to keep certificate of registration in motor vehicle at […]
Three-year-old Lindsey Babb lost her life this morning during a horrifying traffic mishap in Orange Walk Town. The toddler was being transported on a motorcycle driven by her father, thirty-three-year-old Eulalio Babb, when he was overtaken by a Bowen & Bowen delivery truck in the vicinity of Liberty Avenue. The sudden impact upon being passed, […]
A baby was also killed in a fatal road traffic accident over the holiday weekend, this time the mishap took place on the George Price Highway near mile nine. Seven-month-old Esmay Ferguson perished when a Mitsubishi Endeavor driven by twenty-three-year-old Darrel Jackson. The vehicle was headed in the direction of Belmopan when Jackson lost control […]
There was a near fatal accident on the George Price Highway just before seven on Thursday night. An elderly man was hit by a 2008 Toyota Four-Runner driven at the time by twenty-seven-year-old Nory Novelo. Novelo was traveling to Belize City and upon reaching between miles eight and nine on the highway, she saw two […]
Three persons perished in traffic accidents over the weekend. An accident in the south has left two teenagers dead and several others injured. More than a dozen persons were traveling in a truck when the driver lost control and overturned multiple times on the Placencia Road. The accident happened on Sunday afternoon and before the […]
There were three fatal road traffic accidents reported over the weekend, including one in the Toledo District which claimed the life of a Woman Police Constable. Thirty-two-year-old Jennifer Hibberd was driving a Honda CRV sports utility vehicle in the area of Cattle Landing Village on the Southern Highway when she collided into a car that […]
