An elderly Biscayne woman was knocked down and killed as she rode a bicycle on the Northern Highway on Saturday evening. The driver, forty-five year old David Zetina, was heading towards Belize City and claims that he was blinded by the high beam of a vehicle heading in the opposite direction. When he spotted sixty-seven […]
The well-known DJ, Scorpio, was killed on Saturday in a deadly traffic accident involving four motorbikes near the Burrell Boom cut-off. Scorpio died before he could reach the hospital but three other cycling officials who were following a race in preparation for the upcoming Holy Saturday Cross Country, were more fortunate. The race, according to […]
A primary school student has been re-admitted to the hospital following a traffic accident in Santa Elena, Cayo. The five year old was prematurely released from the K.H.M.H. and had to be rushed to another hospital when his condition worsened. That aside, the family of Damion Flowers says they are in need of assistance but […]
A construction worker was hit by a van on Wednesday as he rode his bicycle on the sidewalk on Central American Boulevard. According to police twenty-eight year old Solemni Chun was behind the wheel of the Astro Van and when he attempted to overtake another vehicle on the right side of the road, he lost […]
A father and his son are both lucky to be alive tonight after receiving varying degrees of injury during a freak accident along the Southern Highway in the Toledo District over the weekend. Anthony Edwards, his wife Justina and their children were returning home from church on Sunday afternoon when a flatbed truck carrying a […]
While the father and son survived the freak accident, in the north a man lost his life in a traffic accident over the weekend. On Saturday night Perfecto Victorino was travelling towards the Venezuela area of Corozal Town, but while on the Santa Rita Road, he was knocked down and killed. Victorino was part of […]
Just before six o’clock on Tuesday evening, a Salvadoran caretaker who has been living in Belize for some twenty years was hit and killed in Belmopan. A Belize Bus Owners Cooperative bus transporting passengers to the City was involved in the terrible traffic accident. As a matter of routine, Candelario Lopez, rode the same route […]
Thirty-four year old Luis Polanco, the driver of a Toyota HiAce, who was transporting a team of employees to Windy Hills Resort for an early morning shift on December twenty-sixth, has succumbed to extensive head trauma he received during the road traffic accident. Polanco remained comatose at the Belize Healthcare Partners for a week following […]
On Monday a group of employees on their way to an early morning shift at Windy Hills Resort were involved in a near fatal collision. The Toyota Hiace they were traveling in along the Western Highway near mile sixty-nine was severely damaged when an oncoming vehicle, an Isuzu D-max driven by twenty year old Ian […]
A near fatal road traffic accident involving two vehicles traveling in opposite directions along the Western Highway several miles outside of Benque Viejo Town on Monday morning has left three people, employees of Windy Hill Resort, severely injured. The collision occurred between miles sixty-nine and seventy as a green Toyota HiAce, driven by Luis Polanco, […]
News Five also spoke with Assistant Superintendent Claudio Mai who said that San Ignacio police are continuing their investigation into the accident. Asst. Supt. Claudio Mai “Okay this traffic accident occurred between seventy and seventy-one miles western highway which is just the dump area which is between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo. Reportedly Mister Luis […]
Five teachers and five students were involved in an accident on December fifteenth. The students were going to join over ninety others on a excursion to a new planetarium that recently opened in Chetumal as part of a program called Best Students. The van that the students and teachers were travelling in did not get […]
But other students did not make it to Chetumal. A van carrying thirteen persons ran off the road early Thursday morning as it made its way from Punta Gorda. The passengers included five students along with their parents and teachers who were en route to Chetumal to take part in a cultural presentation. But at […]
Last Friday, a young girl was killed in Double Head Cabbage when she was hit by a school bus. There is another traffic accident to report to night, but fortunately there are no casualties. It happened at mile twelve on the Western Highway shortly before eight o’clock this morning and left one person hospitalized in […]
Deep in the Belize River Valley, a two-year old girl was killed this morning. She is the victim of a terrible accident that has left a school and the entire community of Double Head Cabbage in pain. Rushina MacFadzean was being taken by her brother to a baby sitter when she was hit by a […]
In Belize City, the police provided more details of the tragic accident. Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer “Well, police visited the scene sometime around seven-forty one, but this child was transported to the KHMH from where she underwent surgery. This child, Rushina McFadzean, two years, was being ferried by her five year old brother […]
Also on Tuesday evening, another Belmopan resident died in tragic circumstances. Shortly before six, Wayne Williams, owner of Williams Engineering Services and Director of the Central Building Authority, died on the spot in a terrible accident on the Western Highway. Williams was driving a Toyota Tacoma, heading back to Belmopan from Belize City when the […]
A terrible traffic accident is reported on the Western Highway. It happened before six this evening and it is reliably reported that a resident of Belmopan was killed. A News Five team is at the scene and we can say tonight that three vehicles were involved; a passenger bus, a gas truck and a private […]
A four year old, Ethan Can was knocked down on Friday afternoon in the Village of Succotz. The infant one student was on the perimeter of his school grounds when he was hit by a vehicle driven by Andy Can, a resident of Succotz village. The infant who suffered a broken leg and injuries to […]
It has not been a good month for some cruise ship visitors to the jewel. A number of them have been arrested and charged for marijuana possession at the Tourism Village. Today, eleven tourists from the Carnival Dream were involved in a collision at the junction of the Boom Road and the bridge. The most […]
As many as seven band members were injured in a traffic accident on the Northern Highway over the weekend. The band was heading to Belize City in a Chevy pick-up when the vehicle overturned. Our crew was also travelling back to Belize City and Isani Cayetano has this report. Isani Cayetano, Reporting As many as […]
There is another vehicular accident that occurred over the weekend. This past Saturday, between miles twenty-nine and thirty on the Western Highway, a mishap resulted in a pileup involving three vehicles. Thirty-year-old Lorencio Vanegas was driving his Ford Escort from Belize City to Belmopan after eight that night. He was accompanied by his wife Odelma. […]
A Punta Gorda resident died under suspicious circumstances over the weekend. According to police, shortly before ten o’clock on Saturday night, they were informed that a body was on the road between miles thirteen and fourteen on the Southern Highway near San Marcus Village. The deceased man had multiple injuries and was later identified as […]
One person is in very critical condition tonight after a horrific accident on Thursday night. Alton Murray and another person known as Babaihleh Faber were on a motorcycle heading north on Coney Drive when they collided into a car near Body 2000. Both men were flung from the motorcycle. Witnesses say that they were travelling […]
A hearing impaired Hattieville resident is dead following an accident on Tuesday night between miles ten and eleven on the Western Highway. Shortly before six, the man was riding his bicycle heading home, when he was knocked down by a bus travelling in the same direction. According to several accounts, Dorrel Hyde suddenly appeared in […]
