A sixteen year student who was apparently driving without a license is in trouble tonight with the law. On Sunday night, he collided into the gate of the Taiwanese Embassy in North Park Street. He was reportedly driving on Marine Parade and upon turning into North Park Street; he lost control of his vehicle and […]
It didn’t make it on the police blotter today, but we were able to confirm with the Rural Executive Officer of the Police Department, Assistant Superintendent Christopher Noble, that sometime around eight on Sunday night, police responded to a road traffic accident near Gardenia village on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Two vehicles, including this green […]
There are confirmed reports that Kristen Melissa Young, the granddaughter of former Minister of Health Joe Coye has died during a horrific road traffic accident in Diamond Bar, California. Coye left today for California to be with his daughter at this difficult time. The collision on the West-bound land of the sixty Freeway at five […]
Last Friday, a tragic boat accident on the Crooked Tree Lagoon, involving two Coast Guard boats, claimed the life of twenty year old Benjamin Gentle Junior. Eight others, all high school students, were injured and rushed either to the Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk or the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City with […]
While the Peck family has reason to celebrate, tragedy struck the Gentle family of Crooked Tree early this morning. Because of flood waters that have not totally receded, the causeway that connects the village to the George Price Highway has been closed. Benjamin Gentle Junior had to catch a shuttle which would have transported him […]
At about three-thirty today, as he headed back to Belize City from the Police Passing-Out Ceremony, C.E.O. in the Ministry of National Security, George Lovell, was involved in a relatively serious road traffic accident. It happened on a slick stretch of road at mile forty near the Beaver Dam Bridge. Apparently Lovell’s driver was attempting […]
A bus full of passengers travelling from Orange Walk collided with a jeep before it could get to its destination in Corozal. The bus careened into a nearby cane field while the jeep was totaled. The passengers on board were students heading to the Belize Adventist College in Calcutta. Many of the students received minor […]
But while the Fuller family has every good reason to celebrate, a family up north is grieving the loss of one of their own. On Wednesday night, there was a three-car pile-up involving a ten wheeler truck, a minivan and a pick-up truck in a dark stretch of the highway, not far from the northern […]
Christmas Day, for most Belizeans, is a time to celebrate and show love and appreciation for family. But for four families, the spirit of Christmas may never be the same, as it was the day when their loved ones perished while traveling along the Philip Goldson Highway. A group of four friends, including twenty-two-year-old Hector […]
Well-known Belizean cyclist Geon Hanson remains in critical condition tonight after being knocked down by a commuter bus along the George Price Highway this morning. Hanson, who was on routine physical training along the circuit, was rear-ended by the vehicle while riding his bicycle in the vicinity of mile thirty-eight. According to Deon Leslie, president […]
In Monday’s newscast, we told you about a road traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway that claimed the life of Victoria Bol. The forty-two year old resident of Silk Grass Village in Stann Creek was traveling south with two other persons in a black 2003 GMC Sierra pickup when upon reaching in front of the […]
Another person was killed in the west, but it was as a result of a road traffic accident. Just before one on Saturday morning, forty-two year old Victoria Bol lost her life when the black 2003 GMC Sierra pickup she was traveling in slammed into a police van on the Hummingbird Highway. The extensively damaged […]
There is a hit and run accident to report in the city. At about five-fifteen Saturday morning, seventy-seven year old Carmen Amilcar Trochez was knocked down and killed between miles two and three on the Philip Goldson Highway. The elderly citizen of a Belama Phase Four address was riding his bicycle towards Belize City when […]
The Belize Defense Force is mourning the death of one of its own following a traffic incident on the Phillip Goldson Highway in the wee hours of this morning. Forty year old Staff Sergeant Abimael Carrillo was a passenger in the private Toyota pickup truck of warrant officer Juan Tuyub. There were two other passengers […]
A head-on collision between a Belize Waste Control garbage truck and a passenger bus near the Haulover Bridge this evening has resulted in the hospitalization of at least nine persons. According to the driver of the garbage truck, he was driving the vehicle across the bridge when he lost control and crashed into a Haylock […]
There was a tragic accident in San Lazaro in the Orange Walk District on Tuesday, which claimed the life of fifty-four year old Magdalena Castellanos. Castellanos was at her home in the village when a friend from her church came to drop something off. The woman was sitting in front of her home when the […]
Just after two today, there was a traffic accident in front of the Belize Boxing Federation Gym at the old Center for Employment Training building near the corner of Saint Thomas and Saint Joseph Streets in Belize City. According to information gathered from the scene, the blue Isuzu Rodeo was traveling on Saint Thomas Street […]
There is public outrage at the unnecessary death of an innocent three year old preschooler that happened on Wednesday afternoon. Even more so because the driver of a white van that hit him is believed to have been under the influence of alcohol. Two siblings were victims of the horrific accident; one died instantly and […]
Approximately two hours later, there was another fatal traffic accident this time on the Philip Goldson Highway; it claimed the life of a seventy-five year old man. Around six p.m., Gregory Lopez was riding his beach cruiser bicycle towards Belize City when a white Dodge RAM truck knocked him down near mile six on the […]
There was a terrible traffic accident this afternoon immediately in front of the Belizean Chinese Fast Food restaurant on Cemetery Road. A white van hit two school children, one died on the spot when his head was crushed by the vehicle. His sibling was injured and has been hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. […]
A total of seven persons were injured in a traffic accident on Thursday evening. An SUV, heading toward Belize City, collided with a government vehicle en route to Belmopan. Three passengers travelling in the SUV sustained minor injuries and have been released from the hospital; three others remain hospitalized. But a government employee with the […]
A Honduran national from the village of Duck Run in the Cayo District is dead after his motorcycle crashed into a cow in Spanish Lookout. The accident occurred just before seven p.m. on Saturday. Twenty-four year old Raul Rodas was travelling on his cycle on the road that leads to the Aguacate Lagoon when he […]
A near fatal road traffic accident involving a passenger bus and a four-door vehicle resulted in the hospitalization of an elderly woman after sustaining injuries to various parts of the body. Shortly before three o’clock this afternoon, our Channel Five news team was returning to Belize City when upon reaching mile thirty-nine on the George […]
Earlier in our newscast, we told you about cops breaking open a grave, and to continue the grave theme, this morning a vehicle was forced off the highway straight into the Lord Ridge Cemetery. It was a relatively minor accident and probably wouldn’t even have made it onto our newscast. But it is Halloween, after […]
A double tragedy has hit a family from San Ignacio following a traffic accident that occurred earlier this month. On the night of October seventeenth, forty-one year old Ricardo Tepaz was travelling in his Toyota pickup along with his three kids: seventeen year old Dennis, fourteen year old Glendy and thirteen year old Elmer. He […]
