The scene of a traffic accident near Hattieville was a mess; the smaller of two vehicles involved was ripped in two. The second vehicle was a BNE flat bed truck heading to the Ladyville. The Toyota car, traveling at a high speed from the opposite direction, slammed into the side of the BNE truck. Whether […]
It was emotional day at Saint Hilda’s Primary School, students and teachers were grieving the sudden death of one of their own. Eight year old Kean Vasquez was killed in a traffic accident on Wednesday night on the highway in front of the Georgeville Football field. The young body was heading home from church when […]
There is late breaking news tonight of a fatal traffic accident in the Cayo District. The incident reportedly occurred in Georgeville Village at around six thirty this evening and the victim is said to be a nine year old boy. We’ll have more on this story in Thursday’s newscast.
A car collided into a school bus last night at mile one and a half on the Western Highway. The car was extremely damaged and luckily no one was seriously injured. The driver of the car, Gaynor Richards was stuck inside the vehicle until officers cut the metal around her and pulled her out. The […]
Miguel Menjivar, also known as Mike, is well known in the west as the owner of La Cabana Restaurant and Bar in Belmopan. You met him on Channel Five as the power behind singing sensation Ismael Chacon, the winner of KTV Latino 2010. But tonight, the high spirited businessman is in an induced coma after […]
A man riding his bicycle on the Northern Highway never made it to his intended destination. Fifty-two year old Trevor Lofter was killed between miles eleven and twelve when he was hit by a vehicle driven by Christopher Tillett at around ten o’clock Thursday night. Tillett, a customer care service agent, was charged this afternoon […]
The job of traffic officers is to direct the steady flow of traffic and to detect traffic violations. But on Thursday afternoon one traffic warden became the victim of a traffic incident while on duty. Thirty-eight year old Emil Pinelo was on a motor cycle assigned to the San Ignacio Traffic Department in Santa Elena […]
A near fatal traffic accident has been reported near Maya Center Village in South Stann Creek earlier this evening. Details of the mishap are still sketchy but unconfirmed reports are that two passengers and the driver were trapped inside a vehicle sometime after five o’clock this evening. It is known that two of three occupants […]
A couple was heading out of the city on Saturday night, but before they made to the Haulover Bridge they were involved in a traffic accident. Merevaldo Cassasola was driving a Chevrolet Pickup, accompanied by his wife Margaret. But when they reached mile four and a half, a Dodge Dakota pickup pulled out of a […]
A budding cyclist for the Cayo High Road Cycling Team lost his life in a tragic accident on the Western Highway. Seventeen year old Kristopher Chuc placed second in the eighty mile Junior Road Championships on July fourth and had a promising career ahead of him. But instead of celebrating his success, his family and […]
A man is detained pending charges following a fatal traffic accident in the Corozal District on Monday. The incident happened after eleven o’clock between miles seventy-nine and eighty near Calcutta Village and claimed the life of forty one year old Elvis Clarke, a resident of that village. Clarke, who was riding a bicycle, was discovered […]
In Belize City, a little girl was killed in a traffic accident around three-fifteen this afternoon. The four year old, Elisha Gilharry, was knocked down reportedly while crossing North Front Street to meet her father at a barber shop. The driver of the vehicle, Lyle Harris, reported to police that he had just turned off […]
The traffic flow was briefly interrupted on the Northern Highway just after midnight on Saturday as police processed the scene of a fatal hit and run incident. It happened in front of Roses Paper Products near mile three and claimed the life of nineteen year old Donald Ansensio, a Guatemalan national living in Belize City. […]
An entire family was killed on the Western Highway on July tenth but four Fiji nationals and one Belizean were more fortunate and survived a near fatal traffic accident on the highway. They were travelling in a Ford F-150, heading toward Belmopan and at mile sixty-six and half the vehicle slammed into the back of […]
About a week ago, San Pedro Water Jets, opened a branch of its operation in Belize City. The new water taxi business hopes to bring competition to the industry. But an incident which occurred after four p.m. on Thursday appeared to have damaged the reputation of the organization rather than the boat in the question. […]
What could have ended up with casualties, turned out uneventful for passengers on board a vessel this afternoon at Caye Caulker. At around four-fifteen this afternoon the passenger boat named the Thunderbolt One and belonging to the newly established Caye Caulker Jet Express collided into the pier. News Five understands that the captain, Eliseo Rivero, […]
There are also only a few leads for police in the fatal hit and run incident on Monday night. Police are following reports that a white container truck traveled through the area when the incident occurred. Sixty-four year old Francisco Albeño was struck from behind by what witnesses say was a heavy duty truck traveling […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you that police need your help in identifying a man found dead on the Western Highway. They also need your assistance in locating driver of a heavy duty vehicle that was involved in a road fatality on Monday night. The hit and run occurred on the Hummingbird Highway at […]
Just after eleven this morning, a young student lost his life in a traffic accident in the Ladyville area. Dale Sibley was heading on bicycle to his home when he was hit by a vehicle traveling toward Belize City. He apparently was distracted by his IPod and did not hear that a car was approaching […]
There are two versions to an accident that occurred in Belize City on Saturday night at eight p.m. near Everyday Restaurant. Eyewitnesses say that the victim may have been the cause of the accident but the family of Harry Zelaya disagrees. Zelaya who was on a bicycle was knocked down and remains hospitalized tonight. Zelaya’s […]
It was a horrific accident, one of the deadliest and certainly the most gruesome, according to our records. A total of six persons died on the spot. The first accident led to the next at the same location at mile twenty-seven on the Western Highway on Saturday. An entire family of five perished early in […]
Within hours, the second accident claimed the life of a Ministry of Works employee, Sherman Williams, while he was operating an excavator at the same accident scene to remove the tow head. Here again is Marion Ali. Marion Ali, Reporting Thirty nine year old Sherman Williams, a Ministry of Works employee, was one of several […]
Channel Five’s Reality Wedding groom to be, twenty three-year old Julio Escalante, is showing positive signs of recovery at the K.H.M.H. where he is receiving treatment. Julio was seriously injured and trapped beneath a car last week as he headed to work at the Princess Hotel and Casino. He was injured on the hip, shoulder […]
Channel Five’s Reality Wedding Groom to be, Julio Escalante was badly injured on Wednesday and his condition appears to be worsening. The twenty-three year old was hit from behind by a car as he rode his bicycle to work at the Princess Hotel & Casino. The incident happened not far from his family’s home on […]
Twenty-three year old Julio Escalante remains bedridden at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after suffering multiple fractures during a near fatal traffic mishap on Wednesday. Escalante who is to wed Vanessa Ramos in our reality show, From Yes to I Do, was hit by a vehicle on Central American Boulevard shortly after one o’clock in […]
