A motorist is tonight lucky to be alive, following a near fatal road traffic accident along the Phillip Goldson Highway on Sunday morning. The white Chevy Tahoe, driven at the time by Edward Ellis, was completely engulfed in flames by the time Ladyville police were able to respond to the scene. Fortunately, he was able […]
A young couple from Belmopan is in critical condition at the Belize Medical Associates after a three-vehicle pileup on the George Price Highway on Thursday afternoon. Marlo Chavarria and his wife Marie Nicole were heading home when their black Jeep SUV collided into a Freightliner dump truck towards Belize City. The massive impact damaged the […]
A cyclist riding erratically along the Southern Highway lost his life shortly before one o’clock this morning in a deadly collision. The fatal road traffic accident happened in the vicinity of Forest Home Village and involved several police officers inside a stationary pickup truck. They were responding to an incident in the area when they […]
Twenty-eight year old Kareem Arnold narrowly escaped death by bullet multiple times, and death by knife as recently as last month. But in the end death was persistent and caught up with the notorious Ladyville gangster Saturday night at mile eighteen in Sandhill. At around seven forty Arnold was riding a small Meilun cycle towards […]
A second person has succumbed three weeks after an accident on the George Price Highway which took the life of forty-two year old Egbert Ferguson on February second. Ferguson died during surgery at the K.H.M.H. within hours of the road traffic accident. Earlier today police confirmed that French national Emilie Siman passed away on Sunday. […]
There was an accident on the Haulover Bridge at around three-fifteen this afternoon, when the driver of a red SUV apparently lost control and crashed into a large truck. There were no apparent serious injuries, but the driver of the SUV, Raquel Burke, was rushed to the hospital by ambulance since she appeared to be […]
On Tuesday, Egbert Ferguson succumbed to injuries sustained in a traffic accident between Miles seventeen and eighteen on the George Price Highway. Tonight we can report that there is another victim of road traffic accidents. Irma Celiz, a resident of the Belmopan area, was involved in an accident on Sunday. This morning, Celiz passed […]
Tonight we report on four accidents that occurred on both main highways; of the four, one was fatal. On Monday afternoon, just before four o’clock, a pickup truck driven by Egbert Ferguson collided into a tour van, traveling from the opposite direction transporting six French tourists. A total of eleven persons were injured in the […]
Aside from the fatal accident that claimed the life of forty-seven year old Egbert Ferguson, there were three other accidents today alone on the Phillip Goldson and the George Price Highways. This morning just after nine o’clock, sixty-two year old Lloyd Foreman was knocked off his bicycle between miles six and seven on the Phillip […]
There was a third accident this morning just after nine on the George Price Highway, which happened at about the same time as the RTA on the Phillip Goldson Highway. It wasn’t fatal, but driver Deryck Satchwell got off very lucky after he lost control of his Dodge Caliber and it flipped off the road […]
There was a head on collision this afternoon at about four-thirty at mile eighteen on the George Price Highway. Two vehicles, a pickup truck and a van transporting six tourists crashed into each other. While there were no fatalities, several persons were injured in the accident and had to be rushed to the Karl Heusner […]
Well-known Belize City money lender Pamela Bennett and Burrell Boom resident Alfredo Navarette perished in a horrible traffic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway on January second. Bennett and her husband Calvin Cumberbath were heading out of the city, while Navarette was heading into the city when the fatal collision occurred. Today, Cumberbath who is […]
A road traffic accident on Saturday proved fatal for a nineteen-year-old cyclist when he collided head-on into a vehicle whilst rounding a curve near Altun Ha, on the Old Northern Highway. Sometime before three o’clock that afternoon, Maykon Vivas, a resident of Lucky Strike Village perished at the scene of the collision. Upon arriving in […]
There were two other accidents, which were not fatal, but left victims traumatized. Robert Logan, a motorist traveling along the George Price Highway, is lucky to have escaped grave injuries over the weekend when his vehicle overturned and caught on fire. Sometime around ten-thirty on Saturday morning, Logan was driving a blue Ford Ranger pickup […]
A third mishap, this one in Lords Bank Village, involved the manager of a local business in Belize City. Enrique Minima is lucky to have escaped unhurt when he lost control of the wheel of his mini SUV as he was driving towards Edwin Parks Avenue. The vehicle overturned once and was extensively damaged as […]
Well-known Belize City moneylender Pamela Bennett and Burrell Boom resident Alfredo Navarette perished in a road traffic accident along the Phillip Goldson Highway over the New Year’s weekend. During the head-on collision the Toyota Tundra in which Bennett was traveling slammed into an oncoming vehicle driven by the elderly Navarette. The pickup truck was being […]
Over the past weeks, there have been multiple road traffic accidents where lives were lost, and alcohol was involved. Alcohol, unfortunately, is almost as much a staple of Belizean life as rice and beans. That translates many times to drinking and driving, and far too often to traffic fatalities. Can the police do more on […]
While there is certainly a need for more vigilance, cooperation and enforcement from Police and related traffic entities…is there a need for stronger legislation, or even new legislation? Here at News Five we’ve covered many accidents in which innocent lives were lost because drivers chose to drink. We’ve never heard of one who was imprisoned […]
It was a bloody weekend on Belize’s highways. There were four separate accidents, three on the Phillip Goldson Highway and one on the George Price Highway, leaving multiple persons injured and four dead. The first terrible accident happened on Saturday night between mile forty-nine and fifty, on the outskirts of Carmelita Village in the Orange […]
A near fatal road traffic accident along the Phillip Goldson Highway on Saturday morning preceded a deadly crash moments later. Andre Gordon and Marvin Ramirez were traveling in opposite directions when they collided into each other a stone’s throw from the Haulover Bridge. Fortunately, neither motorist suffered any life threatening injuries. That pileup, however, may […]
While there was no loss of life in that accident, another RTA occurred in the same vicinity near the Haulover Bridge on January second. Two persons perished instantly; money lender Pamela Bennett and Alfredo Navarette were traveling in separate vehicles when they were involved in a head on collision. Bennett’s husband was also injured and […]
A Belize Defense Force officer lost his life of Wednesday in a traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway in the Orange Walk District. The on-duty officer was driving a B.D.F. Mahindra pickup which collided into a Mexican passenger bus traveling from Belize City to Cancun. Several persons received minor injuries from the impact, but […]
There were several road traffic accidents over the weekend and there was loss of life in at least two instances. The life of one-year-old Genesis Teresa Medina was cut short in a tragic hit and run on Sunday. Just before five o’clock, the toddler was knocked down and killed by the driver of a pick-up […]
A sixty-one year old vendor from the village of Armenia died yesterday afternoon from injuries sustained when the motorcycle he was riding was hit by an SUV. It happened between miles fifty and fifty-one on the George Price Highway in Camalote. According to Police, at around three fifteen Marina Vasquez was driving her SUV in […]
On Tuesday night we reported on two separate traffic accidents involving buses and fortunately there were no fatalities. Tonight we have more details on the accident that happened between miles seventy-one and seventy-two on theGeorge Price Highwayat about four-thirty on Tuesday afternoon when an Isuzu cargo truck collided with a Blue Bird school bus. Twenty-five […]
