Sunday morning’s accident on the Northern Highway ended the life of Kendra Smith Flowers. Smith, a newlywed, along with her husband of five months, were on their way from Los Lagos to Belize City to visit family when the vehicle veered off the road and into the Belize River. That happened at ten a.m., and […]
The life of a thirty-one year old Atlantic Bank employee was cut short on Sunday morning as she and her husband headed to Belize City. The husband was behind the wheel of the vehicle, which lost control and plunged into the Belize River. He managed to pull himself out of the waters, but his wife […]
Another Belizean, however, lost his life in a traffic accident also in Los Angeles. Thirty-six year old motorcyclist, Orrin Casey, formerly of Belmopan, was killed by a ninety-four year old driver. It happened this past Monday morning when Casey was hit by the elderly man who was trying to exit a shopping centre in the […]
This past Wednesday night, a traffic accident took the life of Ray Lightburn, a former street general for the opposition People’s United Party. He had a long trajectory in publishing, but it is his political work and unionism that Lightburn was well known for. Just recently a book was published on his colorful life. Jose […]
On the highways, however, shortly after one this afternoon, three persons were injured in a traffic accident in the vicinity of Benny’s Apartments. The accident involved a Plymouth caravan traveling towards Belize City and an Isuzu rodeo going in the opposite direction. Both vehicles were extensively damaged from the impact of the collision. The rodeo […]
And a traffic accident on the Northern Highway landed one man in the hospital. After eight-thirty last night, an SUV driven by Mariano Williams, collided into the back of a bus. The impact pushed the bus a few feet further and it knocked down twenty-four year old Jose Hun, a B.D.F. soldier. The driver of […]
While the primary school kids in Caye Caulker have fallen ill, the highways claimed the life of two individuals in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Sunday at three-thirty in the afternoon, three generations of the Marin family were caught in a brutal accident. It is believed that a tire blow out caused Genoveiva […]
The second accident that occurred over the weekend involved a Belize City resident. Thirty-nine year old Lawrence Cleland, a tour guide of Faber’s Road was travelling alone in the direction of Scotland Half-moon towards Burrell Boom at five-forty-five on Sunday morning when disaster struck. It is not known if Cleland fell asleep at the wheel […]
Also in the south, the highway turned out to be dangerous and deadly for an eighteen year old cyclist of Maya Mopan. Gonzalo Gabino was hit by a delivery truck between miles twenty-six and twenty-seven this past Friday. He was injured on the head and died on the way to the Southern Regional Hospital. The […]
In other news, Hua Fa He, the proprietor of Fakee Game Room on Douglas Jones Street in Belize City, is dead tonight following a traffic accident just before midnight. Thirty-five year old Hua succumbed to injuries a few hours later. According to police, Hua was traveling in his black Isuzu Trooper with three passengers towards […]
Earlier today, traffic was interrupted on the Western Highway for about two hours, when an LP butane tanker overturned. The tanker was loaded with two thousand gallons of butane and was heading towards Belize City. According to the driver, Rogelio Gutierrez, he lost control of the vehicle as he took the curve in the vicinity […]
There were two accidents yesterday on the Western Highway. The first one involved doctor George Gough who ran in the UDP slate for Fort George against former PUP leader Said Musa. Gough who was defeated in the election, once penned a column in party’s newspaper. According to reports, the Hilux he was driving flipped three […]
The area that Gough crashed between mile twenty-seven and twenty-eight is well known. Immediately across from the accident scene, a crushed vehicle is perched atop an insurance company’s billboard. But Gough was not the only unlucky person. Another vehicle crashed yesterday afternoon, a few yards away from Gough’s Hilux. And according to corporal Bermudez, this […]
A villager of Sarawee in the Stann Creek District is dead after he was knocked down on Monday night. The incident happened sometime before eight o’clock between miles four and five on the Stann Creek Valley Road and claimed the life of fifty four year old Dennis Peters. Police investigations have revealed that Emily Cornelius […]
A head on collision between a bus and a Geo Tracker last night on the Northern Highway ended fatal for the driver of the Tracker. The incident occurred around seven-fifteen between miles forty and forty-one. It happened when the Tracker, heading towards Orange Walk collided with a Novelos Express Premier bus travelling towards Belize City. […]
Drinking and driving is illegal because of the risks involved, but an accident near Benny’s on the Northern Highway proved that drinking and walking is just as dangerous. Sixty-two year old Roy Mencies of the Belama Phase Two area was reportedly under the influence of alcohol when he attempted to cross the road at about […]
But turning north, Minister Nemencio Acosta and his wife Esther are home safe after a scare on Northern Highway on Tuesday night. Acosta was driving the government’s Isuzu D-Max when at around seven-thirty p.m., he experienced a tire blowout near mile forty-six in Carmelita Village, Orange Walk. The fifty-eight year old minister and his wife […]
While the pathologist says the sixteen year old student died from hanging, the family of Jackie Bernardez want answers as to who is responsible for the loss of her life. The thirty-two year old mother of one was hit by a vehicle as she rode on George Price Drive near the Stann Creek Valley Road […]
And heading up north, a Sand Hill resident was hit and killed this afternoon shortly after two. Fifty-six year old Maurice Daniel Sedacey, better known as “D”, was riding his bicycle on the highway about a half mile from his home when a Dodge Ram heading in the direction of Belize City knocked him off […]
And in a story just into our newsroom, a man was injured in a traffic accident around five-thirty this evening between miles three and four on the Northern Highway. News Five spoke with truck driver, Baltazar Goodger who said he was heading home in Ladyville when the collision occurred. Baltazar Goodger, Truck Driver “All of […]
Also in Orange Walk Town, it was the usual drive home for a mother and her two sons who were headed to Indian Church Village. But tragedy struck the family on Monday evening as they travelled through the Shipyard Community. Jose Perez was behind the wheel of the Ford Ranger Pickup truck. He lost control […]
Two persons died in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. The first incident occurred shortly after seven on Friday night when Succutz taxi driver, Edwin Valencia crashed into a black Dodge Ram pickup between miles sixty-six and sixty-seven on the Benque Viejo Road. Valencia, who was taking a fare to Benque Viejo Del Carmen, died […]
The other fatal accident occurred shortly after two on Saturday afternoon between miles twenty-nine and thirty on the Northern Highway when an Isuzu pickup driven by twenty-nine year old Vicente Rivera slammed into a Mazda car. The pickup flipped several times before ending up with its four wheels in the air. Investigating Officer, Corporal Gonzalez […]
A four vehicle pile-up occurred this evening in Belize City at approximately four-thirty this evening interrupting the flow of traffic at the entrance of Belize City. The four sport utility vehicles ran into the back of each other in front of ADM Belize Mills. No one was injured but the hoods, lights and grills on […]
It has not been a good day for visitors to the jewel. Shortly before eight this morning, a bus carrying tourists en route to Jaguar Paw for cave tubing ran off the road to avoid hitting a freightliner that was turning into a road just before mile seven on the Western Highway. Before coming to […]
