There is an arrest in a hit and run accident that occurred up north over the weekend. Cashier Madelyn Gongora, a resident of Orange Walk has been charged for ‘driving without due care and attention’, ‘failure to stop and render aid’ and ‘negligent grievous harm’. Police believe she was the driver of aToyotavehicle which hit […]
Today seemed to have been a day for accidents involving buses and the resulting traffic jam which made already congested roads unbearable. Early this morning it was a collision just off the Haulover Bridge between a Ramos Bus and another bus carrying commuters to Ladyville. It happened just after seven and while there were no […]
The number of deaths on the highways continues to be a cause for concern. The latest victim is a construction worker from Ladyville who died Saturday night when he allegedly crossed the road in front of a speeding vehicle. The incident happened on a poorly lit stretch of the Phillip Goldson Highway near the Belize […]
There was an accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway this afternoon at around one-thirty. According to reports, a white pickup being driven by Corozal resident Fernando Chan was between mile thirty-four and thirty-five when there was a blowout and the driver lost control. The vehicle ran off the road and flipped, and we are told […]
An elderly resident of Spanish Lookout lost his life on Wednesday afternoon during a fatal road traffic accident. Sixty-seven-year-old Klaus Friesen was knocked down and dragged while riding his bicycle along Center Road. According to a statement taken from the driver of the vehicle that ran him over, Friesen was riding in the direction of […]
One man has been arrested and charged after he knocked down a young student last Thursday on the Belize Corozal Road in Orange Walk Town. The student was crossing the busy road at the very busy lunch hour when the tragedy occurred. Gerardo Lopez, nine years old, died at the KHMH on Saturday, and the […]
A traffic accident has claimed the life of a housewife from the south. On Friday afternoon, fifty-five year old Nelly Lopez from Steadfast Village tragically died when she was flung from the pan of pickup truck driven by her nineteen year old son, Edgar Lopez. The accident happened in the Stann Creek District, between miles […]
A deadly road traffic accident this morning along the Southern Highway has claimed the life of forty-four-year-old Emmerson Burke. Shortly after six a.m., police were summoned to an area between Bladden and Medina Bank known as Machaca Creek where they saw Burke lying face up on the ground about eight feet away from the driver’s […]
There was a deadly traffic accident on the George Price Highway on Thursday. A forty-seven year old resident of Las Flores community in Belmopan was hit and killed. The vendor was riding his bicycle when he was knocked down by a police vehicle. Meanwhile in Belize City, there was a massive seven-vehicle pileup on the […]
An all points bulletin has been issued for the arrest of Abelino Matamoro, following a fatal hit and run incident over the weekend in southern Belize. On Friday evening at around five-thirty, the police headed to the Southern Highway near miles twenty-three and twenty-four, the scene of a traffic accident. There, they spotted a Meilun […]
Six-year-old Kareema Encalada remains hospitalized at the Belize Medical Associates after being knocked down by a motorist in Ladyville a few weeks ago. The incident occurred on October twenty-eight when the primary school student, along with her sister, was hit whilst returning home on Perez Road. Since then Kareema has had to undergo several surgeries, […]
The single mother of three needs assistance with securing her daughter’s travel documents. The cost of Kareema’s airfare is separate from the amount necessary to defray expenses related to the surgery. Marla Marie Encalada, Mother of Accident Victims “I need help, support with the visa. If anyone is out there in the public that […]
Traffic accidents have become a perennial problem. Today there were five in the precinct-four jurisdiction in the city alone and police report that there have been at least two daily accidents in the past three weeks. This morning, near Artic Cold at miles four on the Phillip Goldson Highway, a motorcycle and a car, traveling […]
A single mother is desperately seeking assistance after two of her daughters, one six and one nine, were knocked down last week in Ladyville. Currently the girls, one of them critically injured, are receiving treatment at the Belize Medical Associates thanks to insurance provided by the driver of the vehicle, but Marla Encalada fears that […]
On Sunday morning, police officers attached to Precinct Four of the Belize City Police Department responded to the scene of a fatal traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway, just past the Haulover Bridge. Lying dead on the ground, a short distance from a motorcycle laid the body of one of their own, thirty-eight year […]
A fatal traffic mishap in the Toledo District over the weekend has claimed the life of a man whose identity is yet to be confirmed by Punta Gorda police. On Saturday evening, officers attached to the southern formation were summoned to an area of the San Antonio Road where they observed the lifeless body of […]
A terrible traffic accident on the Placencia road early this morning claimed the life of nineteen-year-old Kyria Krystelle Campos, mother of three-month-old twins. News Five has confirmed that at around one forty this morning, twenty-year-old Giancarlo Vega was driving a PT Cruiser, heading home to Placencia from Orange Walk when he lost control of the […]
Just before four this afternoon, traffic was backed up on the George Price Highway near the Lord Ridge Cemetery. Two vehicles traveling in opposite directions collided head on. From what we were able to gather from the scene, a Mazda Tribute, heading to the City, crashed into the front driver’s side of a Chevy Tracker […]
Tonight, forty-four year old Honduran driver, a naturalized Belizean, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and was slapped with three traffic offenses in relation to a fatal traffic accident on October fifth, 2015 in which eleven year old Tezzrah Diamond Thompson was killed. This morning, after two nights in custody, John Rodriguez was […]
A family grieves tonight the tragic loss of one of their own. Eleven-year-old school girl, Tezzrah Thompson, was hit by a delivery truck when she exited a school bus at the entrance of Mahogany Heights on the George Price Highway, on Monday. The young girl was heading home after a day at school in nearby […]
There was a fatal collision early this morning at Mile Two on the Philip Goldson Highway. One of two persons travelling in a S.U.V. was killed instantly in the crash and it is believed speeding on the slippery highway may have contributed to the accident. John Gordon suddenly lost control of his vehicle and crashed […]
On September third, an elderly woman was struck by a motorist while walking along the Phillip Goldson Highway near mile two. Maria Dolores Castro was severely injured during the accident, breaking both an arm and a leg as a result. Since then she has been admitted to ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and […]
Also in the west…There’s a tragic story of a young child who was killed in a traffic accident on Independence Day. The death of the eight year old Kaylene Mai is even more devastating for the family because the vehicle in which she was travelling was being driven by her mother, thirty-one year old Evelyn […]
There were two traffic fatalities over the weekend in the Corozal District. On Sunday night, police found forty-five year old Dionicio Acosta of San Narciso Village dead on the San Narciso road. Celso Carerra of Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk District hit Acosta while driving his Nissan SUV. Carerra told police that Acosta was riding […]
A near-fatal collision this afternoon along the Crooked Tree causeway has left several persons, including two minors, hospitalized with varying degrees of injuries. Sometime around three o’clock, a grey Toyota Tacoma heading in the direction of the village collided head-on with another vehicle traveling in the opposite direction. The violent impact of the crash sent […]
