Traffic accident victim, Elisia Hunter remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. This morning, she underwent surgery. Hunter was flung into the air on Tuesday morning when the vehicle of the Foreign Minister, Wilfred ‘’Sedi” Elrington hit her soon after she alighted a bus near Mile Eight on the George Price Highway. […]
A thirty-one year old woman is tonight clinging to life at the K.H.M.H. after she was struck by a government vehicle. The accident happened at just after nine this morning at mile eight on the George Price Highway. Elisa Hunter had just gotten off a bus and was crossing the road to her workplace when […]
Elisa Hunter was rushed to the K.H.M.H. and when we checked this afternoon, she was in surgery. We understand that she sustained head and body injuries, and from what is seen in the footage, she is lucky to be alive. A blood specimen was taken from Elrington’s driver, Amir Garcia, and he was served with […]
There is more tragic news to report…both coming out of Rural Belize District. It includes a sudden death and a fatal traffic accident. Around two-thirty on Saturday morning, twenty-four year old prosecutor, Ryan Martinez and a female friend, twenty-two year old Irene Sanchez, were heading towards Ladyville when the Lincoln car they were traveling in […]
Assistant Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura, on interdiction for the manslaughter of Yolanda Valencia, was arraigned on a string of traffic-related offences, including driving with alcohol concentration above prescribed limit, on August nineteenth. It has since been confirmed that Segura’s blood-alcohol level was indeed above the legal limit. Segura was returning to Benque Viejo del […]
There have been extensive reconstruction works on the George Price highway, indisputably the most dangerous roadway which can claim the most fatalities from road traffic accidents. This morning at around seven-thirty one driver was extremely fortunate to escape death. It happened at around mile twenty, as BELTRAIDE employee Nicole Zetina headed towards Belize City. A dump […]
A Guatemalan national was today arraigned for the death of a Santa Elena resident who was killed following a traffic accident on Tuesday. Eighty-three-year- old Oscar Perez Senior, a resident of Benque Viejo del Carmen had the book thrown at him earlier today after twenty-three-year-old Heber Flores of Trapiche area, Santa Elena died at the […]
The Carnival Road March in Orange Walk on Sunday was attended by persons from across the country, but the event was not without incident. Around five p.m., a Belize City youth was stabbed to the neck following an altercation with another person as the revelers made their way through the principal street of the town. […]
Twenty-nine-year-old police constable Marvin Sedassey was killed this morning in a fatal road traffic accident in the Toledo District. Sedassey’s extensively damaged Ford Escort slammed violently into a freight truck causing massive injuries to the young officer. While Punta Gorda police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding his demise, News Five is reliably informed that […]
In March of this year, fifty eight year-old businessman Phillip Gallaty was accused of reversing his double cab white Toyota Hilux Pickup truck into the front bumper of the vehicle of Traffic Magistrate, Stephanie Gillett. The Ford Escape SUV was parked on the shoulder of the Northern Highway in front of Friendship Restaurant and was […]
A minor and a woman perished on Friday night at about nine o’clock in a traffic accident on a dangerous stretch of the George Price Highway. The two victims are seventeen year old Belizean Jose Manuel Castellanos and twenty-two year old Honduran Maritza Cruz, who were trapped in a GEO Tracker which collided into a […]
An accident occurred on Thursday night between Miles thirty-four and thirty five in an area known as Rhaburn Ridge on the Philip Goldson Highway. A vehicle, a small Audi, collided into the back of a Masey Ferguson trailer loaded with pine logs being towed by a tractor. The trailer did not have any head or […]
On Saturday, there was a terrible road traffic accident near Succotz on the George Price Highway. Two vehicles were involved, one a small taxi and the other a Nissan SUV. In the taxi were fifty-four-year-old Yolanda Valencia and her cousin, Yanie Cu. Valencia died on the spot, and her cousin was badly injured. The other […]
This morning, stakeholders across the transportation industry, as well as the public service, converged on the Biltmore to evaluate the National Road Safety Program one year later. While the focus of the program includes drunk driving, a great deal has also been invested in infrastructure, equipment and training. News Five was present at the review […]
The Road Safety Annual Review, ironically, comes on the heels of one of the most high profile cases involving drunk driving in recent memory. The fatal road traffic accident on Saturday which claimed the life of Yolanda Valencia and landed Yanie Cu in the K.H.M.H. fighting for his life involved Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel […]
In the aftermath of Saturday’s fatal road traffic accident involving Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura, there has been uproar, particularly by residents of Succotz Village who are either family or friends of Yolanda Valencia and Yanie Cu. Valencia, who died on impact when the Isuzu Pathfinder driven by Segura collided with a taxi cab […]
In Succotz this morning, heated protestors set fire to used rubber tires along the George Price Highway. The blockade was the result of residents demanding justice in the case of Yolanda Valencia who perished in a traffic accident which left twenty-eight-year-old Yanie Cu clinging to life at the KHMH. The tragedy involved an intoxicated Deputy […]
There was a serious accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway this morning. It happened between miles six and seven, where a loaded Ramos Shuttle Bus heading from Lord’s Bank to the city crashed almost head on into a red pickup truck, driven at the time by thirty-one year old Hugo Campos. The impact was massive, […]
The accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway happened at exactly eleven o’clock, and just a half an hour after that there was another accident on the George Price Highway. It happened just outside of Belize City, at mile two. Fifty two year old Rigoberto Itch was on the road when he was hit by a […]
Tonight one man from Belmopan is in Police lockdown and another is in the morgue following a traffic accident on Monday. It happened about eight miles off the George Price Highway near the Green Tropics Compound. Both men, Marcelo Reymundo and Yeymi Saquic, are employees of that company and were heading home when the accident […]
A DHL courier was badly injured in a late afternoon accident today right here on Coney Drive. It happened at around four thirty, when the courier was heading back to his office near Young’s Automotive on Coney Drive. The cyclist collided into a pickup which turned onto the busy thoroughfare. An eyewitness told us that […]
But at the start of the weekend, a terrible road traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway on Friday evening resulted in the death of two men and blocked the road for hours. Thirty-one year old Duane Pelayo and forty-eight year old Gerald Gillett are said to have died almost instantly when the motorcycle they […]
As we reported earlier, late this evening a traffic accident took place around mile seven on the Philip Goldson Highway. Two persons died when the motorcycle they were riding on collided head on into a B.T.B. pickup coming from the opposite direction. The two persons on the cycle were killed when their bodies were flung […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident today in the Orange Walk District. Sometime around two o’clock this afternoon, two vehicles traveling in opposite directions along the Yo Creek Road collided into each other. Reports are that Nadir Muñoz, the driver of a grey sports utility vehicle, which was being used to vend corn tortillas, […]
The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of sixty-two-year-old Alfonso Manzanero, a retiree of Belmopan, has raised more questions than answers for his grief-stricken family. On Sunday morning, Manzanero was reportedly driving his silver Mitsubishi SUV when he lost control of the vehicle and landed in a ditch not far from his Nanche Street address. Police […]
