There was another fatal road traffic accident early Sunday morning, this one in the Orange Walk district. Forty-three year old Remijio Botes was allegedly killed instantly when he lost control of his vehicle at the entrance to San Jose Village. Police haven’t released any official information, but News Five understands that Botes works at B.T.L. […]
There are two fatal traffic accidents to report tonight. The first fatality occurred on Friday night in Esperanza Village, Cayo District. Thirty-five year old William Lopez was riding his bicycle through the village when he was hit by a vehicle driven by very well known contractor Imer Hernandez of Benque Viejo del Carmen. Lopez was […]
Sixty-seven-year-old Mohan Thani, a Belizean businessman of Indian descent, was knocked down and killed on Wednesday evening as he attempted to cross the Phillip Goldson Highway near Belize Electricity Limited. Shortly after four o’clock, police visited the location where they saw the elderly man lying on the highway suffering from massive head and body injuries. […]
A Los Lagos businessman is detained pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions after he knocked down a man on a motorcycle in Orange Walk. Forty-four-year-old Rolando Silva was allegedly overtaking a vehicle near the Tower Hill junction when he slammed head-on into a motorcycle being driven by thirty-two-year-old Marvin Tillett. The incident […]
A hit and run accident in the Toledo District has left one man dead and a minor critically injured. Shortly after nine o’clock on Saturday night, twenty-four-year-old Francisco Coy and a child were riding along the Southern Highway when they were hit from behind by an unknown vehicle. The driver did not stop to render […]
There were several accidents over the weekend resulting in one fatality in Independence and at least ten person injured in Independence and Belmopan. We start with a fender bender in Belize City on Sunday afternoon. At just after two p.m., a white government issued Toyota Prado being driven by Minister of Education Patrick Faber was […]
An elderly man is dead and at least six others injured in a horrible road traffic accident this morning. It happened in the Savannah area about two miles from the junction with the Southern Highway. At around seven fifteen am a school bus was heading to Independence High School carrying new first form students for […]
Earlier today, a Belize City man riding on a motorcycle collided with a Nissan pathfinder. Emmett Fortune was returning to work when the accident occurred. He fell off his motorbike and the Sports Utility Vehicle ran over his left leg. A News Five team was in the area and Isani Cayetano has a report. […]
On Thursday afternoon, two vehicles collided on the George Price Highway. Customs officer, Frank Robinson perished on impact, while two others traveling with him in the government pickup truck were more fortunate sustaining injuries, not considered life-threatening. The fatal collision remains under investigation, but family members of Robinson believe that a third vehicle may have […]
A customs officer identified as Frank Robinson, en route to Belize City shortly after three o’clock this afternoon, lost his life in yet another fatal road traffic accident. The collision between a dump truck bearing license plate number A-zero-zero-two-one-four, belonging to Imer Hernandez Development Company and a Ministry of Finance pickup which Robinson was driving, […]
In the early hours of Monday morning, former P.U.P. Minister and Toledo West Area Representative sixty-five year old Marcial Mes died in a road traffic accident. Mes was driving his green Toyota Rav-four from the direction of Punta Gorda Town toward his home in San Marcos village. The incident happened at around one-fifteen a.m., and […]
Two primary school children were knocked down as they headed home from school on Thursday evening. Siblings, twelve year old Francine Francis and seven year old Herman Williams, both students at Saint Luke’s Methodist Primary School on Mahogany Street, were hit from behind by a white SUV as they rode on a bicycle to their […]
A police man of Double Head Cabbage is tonight fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a traffic mishap on a stretch of road in the village. Sometime after eleven on Sunday night, twenty-three year old Police Constable Jahman Flowers was found unconscious on the side of the road in Double […]
There have been about thirty fatal traffic accidents since the beginning of the year and on Saturday there was another traffic fatality to add to the growing list. A promising S.J.C. sixth form student was killed near mile eleven on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Evan Garnett Junior was driving his car heading home to the […]
The frightening ordeal of surviving a fatal road traffic accident and witnessing the horrific deaths of a wife and son are vivid memories which, sadly, thirty-five-year-old Raul Magana Junior will have to live with. At around three-thirty on Monday afternoon, whilst returning home to Ladyville, the sports utility vehicle in which the family was traveling, […]
Around nine a.m. this morning, less than a mile away from where the tragic accident involving the Magaña family occurred, there was yet another traffic mishap. Emerson Michael says that he was driving his Mariner SUV on the highway when a police van slammed into the rear of his vehicle. Traveling at the time with […]
A mother and her baby perished this afternoon just after four o’clock in a horrible traffic accident at mile twenty-seven on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Our crew is just back and reports that Raul Magaña, Jr., his wife and baby and two other passengers were heading in the direction of Belize City when his vehicle […]
There was a road traffic accident in the village of Trial Farm in the Orange Walk District last Thursday. RTAs are very common, but the circumstances surrounding this one are not. A fourteen-year-old minor was allegedly given the keys to a pickup truck to run an errand. He was doing that when he knocked down […]
There was another tragic loss of life two days into the Easter weekend and it involved yet another school-aged child. Sometime after five p.m., five year old Akeela Wade met her untimely death when a scooter she was riding on along with two other family members slammed into the rear wheel of a Progressive Shuttle […]
Earlier we told you about a motorbike accident in Belize City which claimed the life of a five year old. There was another incident on the George Price Highway on Saturday, and again, a motorcycle was involved. It happened at around two p.m.; about one hundred yards in front of a News Five team heading […]
Aside from the five persons who were murdered, two others died in traffic fatalities. There was a fatal traffic accident on Saturday night near mile nineteen and a half on the Phillip Goldson Highway, involving a commuter bus and a cyclist, was the last of three deadly collisions over the weekend. Shortly after eight p.m. […]
Traffic accidents have been on increase since the beginning of year and invariably it involves drunk drivers. This morning, a simultaneous launch of a Don’t Drink and Drive Campaign took place in municipalities across the country as part of a road safety project. Through a loan from the World Bank, the project will see the […]
The campaign was also launched in Belmopan this morning. Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, as well as the Social Investment Fund, through the Belize Municipal Development Project, gathered at the Sir George Brown Field for the event. Also present were a number of primary and secondary schools. The issue of road […]
There is another tragic story to report tonight. A five year old boy, Kenton Kerr Neilson, was crushed to death when a forklift ran over him. The incident happened early this afternoon in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District. The school-aged boy fell from the heavy-duty machine which was driven at the time by thirty-two year old […]
The family of thirteen year old Earl Flores Junior continues to reel over his death. The minor was hospitalized since February in a coma after he was injured in a hit and run near his home in the Buttercup community near Burrell Boom. The young boy was found bleeding and unconscious on the side of […]
