A young man met his untimely death as he headed home Sunday night. The eighteen year old was hit by a Pickup truck on the Northern Highway and died instantly. When News Five got to the scene, the lifeless body of the young man was lying near his crushed bicycle. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, […]
A twenty-two year old man did not make it to his home in La Democracia on Saturday morning as he fell victim to a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Police would not confirm if it is a hit and run, but it is known that sometime between three and five, Keon Estrada was walking […]
The family of a ten year old boy from the St Martin’s DePorres School in Belize City feels fortunate that he is alive following a traffic ordeal. The young boy was hit by a vehicle in the area of Partridge Street at lunch time last Tuesday when he ran across the street. The child bounced […]
The Agricultural Trade Show opened this evening after a delay due to the Influenza A H1N1 scare. And while there were no fatalities associated with the flu, a traffic accident at the show grounds turned deadly for a minor. Around six-thirty on Thursday evening, four year old Dalila Chiac was hit by a white GMC […]
A six year old boy is dead after he was knocked down on Saturday evening in Belize City. But what makes the situation sadder is that the driver did not stop to render aid to the gravely injured child. Instead, he fled the scene leaving behind the dying child, his badly tattered bicycle, and the […]
Meanwhile a Sunday morning accident near Old Belize has left one man hospitalized with serious injuries. According to reports, a red Pontiac car, heading west from Belize City around eight thirty a.m., slammed into a Dodge Ram Pick-up truck parked in front of Old Belize. The driver of the car, Edgar Reyes, sustained severe injuries […]
On the way back from the murder scene in Spanish Lookout, the News Five team encountered an accident on the Western Highway that landed three tourists in the hospital. Two vehicles were involved, the first was a dump truck and the other was a van carrying eight tourists who were travelling from Belize City in […]
What should have been the happy ending of a field trip turned to tragedy for the students of San Martin’s Government School. Late Thursday evening the primary school students from the Belmopan area were returning home when the bus they were riding in was involved in an accident. Seventeen year old Erik Houston Middleton was […]
We reported last night that a small aircraft, a piper Azetca, lost altitude shortly after take-off from La Aurora Airport in Guatemala yesterday afternoon, killing five passengers and the pilot. The plane was heading to Belize and on board were university professors. News Five has confirmed with the Foreign Ministry that there were no Belizeans […]
A thirty-eight year old man was killed during a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. The man left his home to make a purchase at a shop, and it was during the return trip home, he met his death. The man was riding his bicycle when he was hit by a pick-up truck on Saturday […]
There was an accident on the Western Highway on Sunday night sometime between eleven and twelve. The details of the accident are still sketchy but as soon as Belmopan Police received information about the crash they went to mile thirty-six on the Western Highway where they found a Kenworth brand, eighteen wheeler towhead with a […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway early this afternoon took the life of a sixteen year old minor. Around one-thirty p.m., Edwardo Flores was crossing the highway between miles ten and eleven to catch a bus en route to Belmopan when he was hit by a dark green Toyota pickup truck travelling in the […]
In other news, a traffic accident early this afternoon left two women injured. Shortly before one p.m., thirty-six year old tour guide taxi driver, Mason Hutchinson, was traveling in his red Crown Victoria car towards B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks when upon approaching its intersection with New Access Area, his vehicle collided front on with […]
The family of Marsha Smith in Belize City is having their share of unfortunate events. Smith’s son, Sharife, was recently killed and now her daughter, twenty-two year old Rushelly, is hospitalized following a traffic accident shortly before nine Tuesday night. Rushelly was knocked off her bicycle by a vehicle travelling on Vernon Street. Accompanied by […]
Tire blowouts have been attributed as the cause of recent traffic fatalities on the Northern Highway. And this past Monday morning eight persons survived what could have otherwise been another tragedy caused by a blowout. The three families were on their way home from an outing in neighbouring Chetumal when they experienced a blowout in […]
And we go north where a man is in a critical condition following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. The mishap occurred at around three-thirty this afternoon near mile seventy-six in Concepcion Village when eighteen year old Rafael Pineda of the same village was riding a bicycle towards Corozal Town. Police reports are that […]
There is an update to report in the fatal traffic accident on Sunday in which four members of the Acosta family from the village of Cristo Rey perished. News Five learnt today that the condition of the five survivors has improved, fifteen year old Seidy and Joycie Acosta are now in stable condition at the […]
Last Wednesday three persons died in a horrible accident on the Northern Highway near Carmelita Village. And tonight five days later, the Highway has claimed the life of four more persons caused again by a tire blow-out. The latest tragedy occurred shortly before six on Sunday evening, and it involved a family from the village […]
After four this evening an accident occurred at mile four on the Northern Highway. It involved a Ford 250 pickup truck belonging to Bowen and Bowen Limited and Daihatsu Delta pickup truck owned by Madisco. Both vehicles were headed towards Belize City when they collided. Pedro Sanchez, Junior, an employee of Madisco, explained what caused […]
Three persons traveling north died on the spot in Carmelita Village in the outskirts of Orange Walk Town this morning. The traffic mishap on the open highway is the worst this year resulting in the horrific death of the three, two of whom were decapitated. Thirty-three year old Atilio Ulloa of Simon Lamb Street who […]
Tonight former Prime Minister and current Senior Financial Advisor to government, Manuel Esquivel, is recovering at the Belize Medical Associates after his SUV flipped several times on the Western Highway. Esquivel is in serious but stable condition, much to the relief of family and friends… but as News Five reporters Duane Moody and Marion Ali […]
Sharife Smith was not the only youth to lose his life over the past twenty-four hours. A child was also tragically killed in an accident that occurred this afternoon. Seven year old Elias Suarez attended the Ladyville Seventh Day Adventist School, located at the corner of Hecker and Perez Roads. Classes ended at twelve and […]
The body of a young girl was found today in Cotton Tree Village last night and a police officer has been questioned and released. But first we report that further away, a Belize City man perished in a traffic accident as he headed back to Belize through Mexico. The details are sketchy, but it is […]
A Saturday night outing in Ladyville turned fatal for one and two others were injured in a traffic accident just after a deep curve near Miles eight and nine on the Northern Highway. The seventeen year old driver died while undergoing surgery and one passenger is in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. the other passenger […]
And up north, a man lost his life—also on the road—after he was knocked off his bike on Friday night. He has been identified as forty-two year old Francisco Garcia Villanueva, a Salvadoran national living in Paraiso Village. According to twenty-eight year old Elsner Manzanilla, the traffic mishap happened when he was driving his taxi […]
