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A road traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway has claimed the life on an elderly man. Eighty-year-old Augusto Acosta was riding his bicycle between mile seventy-six and seventy-seven on the highway when a motorcycle collided into him. He received extensive bodily injuries and died while undergoing treatment. The driver of the motorbike, thirty-two-year-old Misael […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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In another fatal accident, this time on the Southern Highway, a man was flung from the back of a pickup truck. According to police, Luis Constante was travelling in the pan of a Nissan Frontier pickup when it collided into a Nissan Rogue. Constante’s injuries were fatal. ASP Yearwood tells us more. ASP Fitzroy […]
Written on January 23, 2023 | Posted in
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The family of seventy-four-year-old Romaldo Che is mourning his death after a driver knocked down the elderly farmhand and did not stop to render any assistance. The fatal road traffic accident occurred on Sunday night around nine-thirty on the San Estevan Road in Orange Walk Town. Reports are that even as Che was struck, the […]
Written on January 9, 2023 | Posted in
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Up to news time this evening, no one has been detained in connection with the road traffic accident in which Romaldo Che lost his life. At a press conference this afternoon, Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero shared brief details on the incident, asking for the public’s assistance. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, O.C., Eastern Division “Police […]
Written on January 9, 2023 | Posted in
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The past twenty-four hours have been most unfortunate for two police constables attached to the Eastern Division of the Belize Police Department. Just after five o’clock on Tuesday evening, Police Constable Darien Skeen was traveling on a motorcycle on the Philip Goldson Highway when he collided into a delivery truck that was making a left-hand […]
Written on December 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams was involved in a fender-bender while overtaking another vehicle on the George Price Highway over the weekend. There has been a lot of criticism targeted towards the top cop since the accident occurred. An image from the scene showed two solid double lines in the middle of the highway, an […]
Written on December 14, 2022 | Posted in
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A resident of Willow’s Bank was killed and another seriously injured in а mоtоrсусlе ассіdеnt оn thе Wіllоw’ѕ Ваnk rоаd on Saturday nіght. Juan Cantun died sometime around seven-thirty that night. Today, the Officer Commanding the police department’s Eastern Division, Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero shared the details. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, O.C., Eastern Division “At […]
Written on November 28, 2022 | Posted in
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Romero said that in recent times, the number of traffic accidents involving motorcycles has increased significantly and that many times these accidents are preventable, if only the drivers adhere to the traffic laws and drive bikes that are properly outfitted. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, O.C., Eastern Division “There is an increase in fatal accidents […]
Written on November 28, 2022 | Posted in
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There was a fatal road traffic accident recorded down south over the weekend when a passenger fell out of the back of a pickup truck while traveling along the Southern Highway. According to Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero, twenty-six-year-old Gideon Ishim was seated in the pan of a pickup truck when he fell out in the […]
Written on November 21, 2022 | Posted in
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Meanwhile, on Saturday morning near San Estevan Village in Corozal, police responded to the scene of a fatal road traffic accident involving a twenty-three-year-old man who was riding a motorcycle. Paul Vasquez succumbed to his injuries, despite being transported to the Northern Regional Hospital for medical attention. Sr. Supt., Hilberto Romero, Officer Commanding Eastern […]
Written on November 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department is mourning the loss of one of its own tonight, following a fatal R.T.A. on Monday in the Cayo District that claimed the life of Corporal Shannon Middleton. Two other persons, including Dillon Pommels and Luis Mejia were also injured in the incident which happened in the vicinity of Blackman Eddy. […]
Written on November 15, 2022 | Posted in
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A former police officer was the victim of a road traffic accident this weekend after he fell out of a vehicle near Blackman Eddy Village. Thirty-nine-year-old Desmond Gordon was transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in an unconscious state after reported falling from the pan of a pickup truck. He received serious head and […]
Written on November 14, 2022 | Posted in
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A thirty-six-year-old Georgeville mother was held in police custody overnight, following a deadly road traffic accident out west. According to police, Erika Trapp was driving her two daughters and two of the neighbor’s children to school when she ran off the George Price Highway and crashed into a roadside drain. The accident claimed the life […]
Written on October 19, 2022 | Posted in
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Four-year-old Zanden Villanueva lost his life in a fatal road traffic accident this morning, along the George Price Highway. A Ford Expedition was traveling between sixty and sixty-one when it crashed into a culvert. Thirty-six-year-old Erika Trapp, a domestic of Georgeville, was accompanied by four minors, including four-year-old Zanden who was seated in the front […]
Written on October 18, 2022 | Posted in
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A young man was killed in a tragic road traffic accident around one this morning and police have detained his close friend pending investigations. The incident happened between miles twelve and thirteen on the Philip Goldson Highway and the victim is nineteen-year-old Daniel Thompson, a driver/deliveryman for Triple L Construction and Supplies in that community. […]
Written on October 14, 2022 | Posted in
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The deadly accident that claimed the life of twenty-one-year-old Jorge Vargas near Ranchito Village on Tuesday remains an open investigation, as the Belize Police Department continues to gather information on what transpired that resulted in the fatal RTA on the Philip Goldson Highway. The head-on collision between a taxi van and an ambulance also injured […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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On Wednesday night we showed you an interview with a relative of Aaliyah Marokin, the twenty-year-old Corozal student who was involved in a tragic road traffic accident on Tuesday evening. In that interview, the relative informed us that Marokin was rushed from the Northern Regional Hospital and then to the K.H.M.H. in a critical condition. […]
Written on October 13, 2022 | Posted in
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A fatal road traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway has left a sixth form student dead and as many as eleven persons with multiple degrees of injuries. According to police, twenty-one-year-old Jorge Vargas was traveling in a taxi van along with six other passengers when the vehicle collided head-on into a Toyota Land Cruiser […]
Written on October 12, 2022 | Posted in
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The family of Aaliyah Marokin, one of the surviving students in Tuesday evening’s tragic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway, is seeking answers from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital as to why the Corozal resident was placed on a waiting list. According to one spokesperson for the family who chose to remain anonymous for fear […]
Written on October 12, 2022 | Posted in
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Over the extended weekend, twenty-year-old Gerson Cardova was knocked down in San Lazaro Village in a hit-and-run incident involving a police officer who was fleeing from a traffic checkpoint in Orange Walk District. The officer who is being placed on interdiction, is believed to have committed a traffic offense prior to knocking down Cardova. Assistant […]
Written on October 12, 2022 | Posted in
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A Ladyville resident lost his life in a fatal road traffic accident on the John Smith Road overnight on Saturday. Nineteen-year-old Randy Pollard was riding his motorcycle and lost control less than a mile from the intersection with the George Price Highway. It is believed that he crashed into a concrete marker on the shoulder […]
Written on October 3, 2022 | Posted in
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In an update to the triple fatality on Tuesday that claimed the lives of three men, police have formally arrested and charged Joel Disus for three counts of manslaughter by negligence and three counts of causing death by careless conduct. He was also slapped with a slew of traffic offences, including drove motor vehicle without […]
Written on September 30, 2022 | Posted in
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The families of three men who lost their lives in a deadly head-on collision on the Philip Goldson Highway on Tuesday morning are still reeling from the tragic road traffic accident. As we reported, a commuter bus traveling in the direction of Orange Walk crashed into a pickup truck driven by fifty-nine-year-old James Dawson. Traveling […]
Written on September 28, 2022 | Posted in
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Tuesday’s triple fatality has brought into sharp focus issues of road safety and driving behaviours. Reports over the past few years would suggest that traffic fatalities are among the leading causes of death worldwide and Belize is no exception. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Almost on a weekly basis, we report […]
Written on September 28, 2022 | Posted in
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Around eight-thirty this morning, news spread like wildfire of a fatal road traffic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway in the village of Sand Hill. As time passed, reports confirmed that more than one person had perished when a pickup truck travelling in the direction of Belize City crashed head-on with a passenger bus heading […]
Written on September 27, 2022 | Posted in
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