This morning, a student of the Tubal Trade and Vocational Institute near Lord’s Bank on the Phillip Goldson Highway was involved in a traffic mishap. The incident, however, was caused by bad judgment on the part of the victim. Alexander Willoughby, a first year student in the Electrical Program at the institution, was one of […]
An accident on the Boom Hattieville Road two weeks ago claimed two lives: a three year old girl passed away and so did a twenty-eight year old driver. Ashley Silva was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed when Lindbergh Tucker collided into the vehicle she was travelling in. Tucker also perished as a result of […]
There were no less than five accidents over the weekend and on Tuesday night, another occurred on the George Price Highway. A bus loaded with passengers was travelling to Belize, but before it could get to its destination, it crashed into a towhead carrying heavy equipment. Luckily, there were no fatalities, but it was a […]
Earlier in the day, there was yet another traffic accident on the same stretch of the George Price Highway. This time, it was a hit and run accident which sent Alexander Shepherd to the general ward of the Western Regional Hospital. The forty-two year old Roaring Creek resident and his eleven year old son were […]
There were various traffic accidents over the weekend, at least five, in the Belize District alone; one was fatal. A Honduran national of Iguana Street Extension, Jose Angel Martinez, was riding his bicycle near the Plum Tree taxi stand at the western entrance of the City on Saturday afternoon. Near the pedestrian ramp, Martinez fell […]
There were a total of six traffic accidents over the weekend; four occurred in rural Belize which is the jurisdiction of Rural Executive Officer of the Police Department, Assistant Superintendent Christopher Noble. In a span of month, two children: three year old Ashley Silva and thirteen year old Earl Jones Junior died following violent traffic […]
Two Bowen and Bowen employees are also in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. following an accident on Sunday evening. Thirty eight year old Ian Nunez of Poinsetta Street and thirty-five year old Deon Geban of Faber’s Road had just left a family day at the Bowen and Bowen Factory in Ladyville when upon reaching the […]
Two minor accidents also occurred in Rural Belize District. Although twenty miles apart and not as serious, the number of accidents within his area is of concern to him, says ASP Christopher Noble. Noble explains that there are several causes behind these accidents including road rage. ASP Christopher Noble, Rural Executive Officer, Police Department […]
On Wednesday morning, eight year old Kyeisha Joseph got on her bus in Double Head Cabbage and headed for school in Ladyville. She got off her bus in front of Our Lady of the Way Primary School, but as she attempted to cross the road she was knocked down by a white SUV being driven […]
A private aircraft with U.S. registration crash landed this afternoon at the Punta Gorda airstrip. The pilot was fifty-two year old Michael Bogacz and his partner, Jennifer Sobre…both American nationals. Sobre was injured to the head and transported to the Punta Gorda Hospital in a critical, but stable condition, but fortunately for Bogacz, he was […]
There is another traffic accident to report tonight. It is a hit and run that happened just after eight o’clock on Thursday night. Police found eighteen year old student Victor Cassanova of Corozal Town on the ground in the area of Fourth Avenue. Cassanova was bleeding from the head and he complained to the police […]
There are three more deaths to add to the growing list of traffic fatalities; so far, there have been at least fifteen accidents since the beginning of the year in which eleven persons lost their lives. Over the weekend, a three year old girl was killed when an incoming vehicle, a Honda CRV, collided into […]
Traffic accidents are among the leading causes of death, and unfortunately an Ontario family is grieving the loss of a loved one. A third fatality occurred on Sunday, involving a collision between an SUV and a motorcycle in Camalote Village. At around five o’clock that morning twenty-two year old Jose Martinez, a resident of Ontario […]
Just a few moments prior to the deadly traffic accident which claimed the lives of three year old Ashley Silva and twenty year old Linbert Tucker, there was a four car pileup along the Boom Road. Though not fatal, the responding officers, already stretched thin having to work the La Ruta Maya event, were forced […]
The sixth traffic fatality since the beginning of March, but the fourth fatality for Rural Belize in less than two days was recorded this morning following yet another traffic mishap on the Philip Goldson Highway. Police say that over the course on Monday night, they were called out to an area between miles six and […]
A family is grieving tonight the death of thirteen year old Earl Ishmael Flores Junior. The minor was hospitalized since last week 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 […]
Another victim of a traffic accident, Jose Elmer Villanueva, succumbed just prior to the passing of Earl Flores Junior. The sixty-three year old was seriously injured last Tuesday when he fell out of a moving bus belonging to the J and J bus line, which was on a regular run to Chetumal. The elderly man […]
A third person who lost his life in a traffic fatality is John Wade. The Double Head Cabbage Villager was traveling towards Burrell Boom when he lost control of his motorbike at a curve in Bermudian Landing. Wade landed in the bushes and died on impact. ASP Christopher Noble, Rural Executive Officer, Police Department […]
There were two other fatalities to report…this time in the south. Two men from the village of Independence died on Sunday night when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned in Trio Village. At just after seven p.m., Police were called out to an area in front of the primary school where they saw a […]
Aside from the five persons who died in traffic fatalities, we can confirm that three other persons including a female police officer were more fortunate and survived traffic mishaps. Just after ten on Friday night, fifty year old Steve Miles and forty-six year old Wellington Hall were traveling on a motorcycle on the Philip Goldson […]
One man is dead and another remains in critical condition, following a road traffic accident this morning on the Hummingbird Highway. Just after eleven a.m., a van driven by thirty-three year old Manuel Simpson crashed into a motorcycle ridden by twenty-nine year old Jose Flamenco. Flamenco, a resident of mile twenty-eight on the Hummingbird Highway, […]
Two persons were gravely injured in separate traffic accidents in the past three days. The family of sixty-three year old Jose Elmer Villanueva is today standing vigil at the K.H.M.H., praying for the recovery of their loved one. Villanueva was seriously hurt on Tuesday when he fell out of a moving bus as it […]
Another family from the Belize District is at the K.H.M.H. tonight, praying that thirteen year old Earl Ishmael Flores will hold on to life. Flores is from the small community of Buttercup just outside Burrell Boom, and on Sunday afternoon he was knocked down near his home by a vehicle which did not stop, […]
A traffic accident took the life of well-known biker, Anthony Hunter Senior over the weekend. Hunter had escorted a group of visitors on to the George Price Highway when his life was cut short. From all accounts, Hunter, who is the son of historian Fred Hunter Senior, was driving at a high speed and not […]
Anthony Hunter’s family is preparing to lay him to rest later this week. But police investigations continue and contrary to what the family says, the police believe that Hunter was heading in the direction of Belmopan when the collision took place. Police also coincide with the family’s views that speeding was involved in the accident. […]
