A father of two and a teenage friend from the Belmopan area lost their lives instantly in a terrible traffic accident. Both Leonardo Ramos and Rigoberto Cabrera Junior were riding on Ramos’ newly acquired motorcycle when a car crashed into them on a stretch of the Hummingbird Highway in Belmopan, early on Saturday morning. As […]
There was a fatal traffic accident in the Spanish Lookout Community in the west. On route fourteen, several miles into the community, police found the lifeless body of nineteen year old Joshua Garrido. Garrido was flung to his death after the motorcycle he was riding on slammed into the side of a truck that transports […]
There was a traffic accident early this morning in the south side of Belize City. Maria and Reyna, three year old twins, were riding with their mom, Reyna Savala, when they were hit by a truck. The mother was accompanying another sibling to school when the accident happened. Fortunately, the family sustained minor injuries, but […]
Just before nine thirty this morning, two buses collided near the P.G.I.A. junction in Ladyville. A bus from Sarteneja heading into Belize City hit a smaller tourist bus as it exited the airport junction. There were no passengers in the smaller vehicle which received significant damage, and only the driver was injured. The Sarteneja bus […]
There was a collision this morning between a Ready Call bus transporting fifty-one employees and a dump truck. It happened on the Boom-Hattieville Road when the loaded bus crashed into the rear of the truck that was heading to a nearby quarry. The employees on the bus were pretty shaken up, but fortunately only two […]
There was a fatal traffic accident in Ranchito Village, just outside of Corozal town on Saturday night. Twenty-four year old Eric Vellos was traveling home when he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and overturned several times between miles eighty-one and eighty-two on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Vellos was flung from the vehicle […]
There was a near-fatal traffic mishap along the Phillip Goldson Highway sometime around four-thirty this evening when a motorcycle heading towards Belize City collided into the rear of a pickup truck traveling in the same direction. News Five has been unable to confirm the identity of the motorist but we understand that he may have […]
In the eastern Caribbean, St. Vincent and the Grenadines is grieving a number of fatalities from a horrible traffic mishap. At least five persons have been killed following a tragic accident on Monday morning. Just after seven a.m., a passenger bus with approximately twenty-one persons—students and residents—were en route to Kingstown from Fancy when the […]
A pair of siblings, seven year Herber and ten year old Diana Yacab were the victims of a traffic accident on Boxing Day. The duo was hit by an SUV heading towards Belize City as they crossed the highway to welcome their mother home last Friday. The vehicle was driven at the time by Rodolfo […]
There was a traffic accident just before eleven this morning on Princess Margaret Drive near its intersection with A Street in the King’s Park Area. Twenty-five year old David Gonzalez, an employee of Home Protector Insurance Company Limited, was running errands for the company when he slammed into a Toyota Hilux registered to the Guatemalan […]
Separate road traffic accidents on the Phillip Goldson Highway have left one person dead and several others injured. A fatal accident on Saturday between Douglas and San Juan villages in the Orange Walk District claimed the life of a sixty-two-year-old farmer of Douglas. Initial Investigations reveal that Fermin Gonzalez was hit by a pickup driven […]
There was a traffic accident this morning at the Crooked Tree junction at miles thirty-one on the Phillip Goldson Highway. A white truck collided into an SUV coming out of the Crooked Tree road. The driver of the SUV received minor injuries and while he was shaken up, he left the scene without the need […]
At two-fifteen today, eight year old Kiran Moguel was taken off life support at the K.H.M.H. and pronounced dead. The student from Orange Walk sustained massive head and body injuries in a traffic accident on Monday in Chetumal. He and his mother, Esther Moguel, were in the pan of a pickup being driven by Zacharias […]
Tonight, a mother is faced with a decision which no parent should ever have to make. Esther Moguel will have to decide when to take her son, Kiran, off life support because doctors at the K.H.M.H. have said that there is nothing more they can do for him. Both mother and son were the victims […]
Four persons, including two tourists are lucky to be alive following an accident on Saturday evening between miles six and seven on the Phillip Goldson Highway. A Jeep Cherokee taxi traveling from Belize City towards Ladyville reportedly lost control and collided into a Ford Escape SUV coming from the opposite direction. Both drivers received various […]
A fatal road traffic accident on the George Price Highway this afternoon has left two Ministry of Works’ employees dead and an employee of Madisco reportedly in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The accident occurred just before three p.m. near mile forty-six and involved a small white car driven at the time […]
Over the weekend, two persons were killed on the highways. On Friday night, a woman lost her life in a traffic accident between miles fifty and fifty one on the George Price Highway. She was hit by a van driven by forty-one year old Jorge Luis Romero, a taxi driver who was travelling from San […]
Earlier in our newscast we showed you the protesters who were charged in the Benque Viejo Magistrate’s Court. The act for which they were charged was a cry for justice, a demand that Deputy Commissioner of Police be charged for an accident which resulted in the death of one woman. They were also there on […]
A police officer was served with a notice of intended prosecution after he knocked down a man while driving a Government vehicle within city limits. Thirty-four year old police constable Wilbert Chan from Cristo Rey Village, Corozal District, hit Daniel Grey, on October, twenty-fourth, 2014, while driving a Toyota Hilux at the intersection of Cleghorn […]
There were two traffic accidents over the weekend, both of them in the Orange Walk district, and both of them resulting in fatalities. The first occurred on Friday at around ten p.m. on the Trinidad – August Pine Ridge. One man, twenty-four year Alonzo Vasquez, lost control of his vehicle while driving home to Trinidad. […]
The second accident occurred on the Phillip Goldson Highway near the Orange Walk toll booth. Fifty-three year old mechanic Bernabe Roberts was riding his bicycle on the road when he was hit by a vehicle heading towards Orange Walk. Roberts died on the spot from the massive impact. It is believed that Roberts was under […]
In August, Benque resident Yanie Cu was badly injured in a collision with a government vehicle being driven by Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura. In October, News Five ran the story of Cu, who had gotten surgery in Guatemala but was still in terrible pain, unable to walk and further crippled by mounting medical […]
Often you hear about the irresponsibility of taxi drivers that operate ‘dollar vans’ in the Lake Independence area. Dangerously at times, the vans would stop in the middle of the street, in the flow of traffic, to discharge passengers. Well today, just before midday, a woman and her baby were knocked down on George Street, […]
Thirty-one year old Elisa Hunter, who was struck by a government vehicle as she crossed the George Price Highway, perished on Wednesday evening at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Hunter was on her way to work at Belize Recycling Company on Tuesday morning when she was hit and flung into the air by the vehicle […]
Hunter, who is originally from Nicaragua, lived in Belize for the past nine years; she leaves behind a seven-year old child and two sisters and a brother. Her sister, Ersi, says that Elisa’s last words to her were a plea to take care of her daughter. According to Ersi, while the minister did come to […]
