And the weekend was not free of traffic mishaps and two accidents resulted in the deaths of three people. The first occurred around eleven-thirty last Friday night between miles sixty-three and sixty-four on the Southern Highway in the Toledo District. When police arrived they discovered a four door Nissan Frontier pickup extensively damaged. Inside, twenty […]
But a family is tonight mourning the death of seventy-nine year old Bonifacio Sosa of Trinidad Village in the Orange Walk District. According to reports Sosa was killed in a traffic accident when he was hit by a pickup truck driven by forty-eight year old Antonio Novelo. At about two-ten Monday afternoon, Novelo reported to […]
And in Belize City, a traffic accident occurred after eight-thirty this morning on Princess Margaret Drive when two vehicles were travelling side by side coming from the direction of St. John’s College towards the newly constructed roundabout. A Toyota Corolla driven by Selita Lisbey was on the inside lane and the Mitsubishi L200 on the […]
At news time three women are hospitalised at the K.H.M.H. following an accident at approximately eleven-thirty this morning between miles fifteen and sixteen in the area of Tropical Park on the Western highway. It involved two trucks, an eighteen wheeler and a ten wheeler, that were reportedly racing towards Belize City. The driver of an […]
Meanwhile, a man is dead tonight, the victim of a road traffic accident on the Northern Highway. The deceased has been identified as Ruclin Caal. On Friday, twenty-six year old Manuel Romero of Benque Viejo Road in San Ignacio reported to police that he was driving his truck on the Northern Highway towards Orange Walk […]
An infant is the only casualty in a horrific traffic incident that occurred on last Thursday when a blue Isuzu Trooper and a White Ford Club Wagon carrying tourists collided between miles eight and nine on the Northern Highway near the old Williamson sewing factory. Of the ten Carnival Cruise Line passengers in the Club […]
We start this evening’s newscast with a major traffic accident on the Northern Highway, at a dangerous curve around Mile eight. At least fifteen persons were injured, ten of them tourists visiting for the day. The vehicle carrying the tourists collided head on with a trooper heading to Belize City. There are no fatalities so […]
The death toll increased this afternoon when a motorcycle collision on the main Spanish Lookout road left three persons fatally injured. Around twelve-thirty, twenty-one year old Carlos Lopez, a mechanic of Duck Run One was riding his cycle towards the Iguana Creek Bridge. Going in the same direction on another cycle, were driver Jacob Klassen […]
And there is word from NEMO that no one was injured when a Coast Guard vessel transporting villagers from Lemonal to Rancho Dolores, slammed into the Lemonal Bridge. The vessel was heading to Spanish Creek and capsized in the impact but the five persons it was carrying made it to safety. Meanwhile in the west, […]
A blow-out and rain-slicked roads proved to be a dangerous combination this afternoon on the Northern Highway. Details are sparse, but just before two p.m., a van belonging to Rosales Enterprise of Sandhill and carrying three passengers suffered a blow-out and ran off the road into a concrete fence. The incident occurred just past the […]
One man is dead tonight after he succumbed to injuries he received in a traffic accident on the western Highway. Forty-three year old Daniel Douglas died at the K.H.M.H. after he sustained a deep cut wound to his nose. According to reports, shortly before six on Sunday morning, Douglas, along with twenty-three year old, Brenda […]
There was a taxi accident this afternoon and no one was injured but this wasn’t your everyday accident. Normally collisions occur on the highways, but in this case the accident happened at sea. A boat belonging to the Belize Water Taxi Terminal, also known as the San Pedro Express, crashed into a Mexican skiff after […]
Marion Ali is just back from a traffic accident on the Boom/Hattieville Road. Five persons were injured and hospitalized. The incident occurred shortly before five this evening at the entrance to Fresh Pond and involved a heavy truck used for transporting sand and a smaller Ford pick-up truck. Five persons were travelling in the pickup […]
We begin the newscast tonight with a report of seven B.D.F. soldiers that are hospitalised with various injuries after the truck they were travelling in overturned in Mountain Pine Ridge. The incident occurred just before noon today as a four-tonner truck was transporting nine soldiers from the Las Cuevas Research Centre to Camp Belizario. This […]
The weekend’s fatality came not from a gun, but from something just as deadly: a vehicle collision. The deceased has been identified as forty-one year old Jose Orellano, a Salvadoran national of Cemetery Road in Belize City. On Friday night thirty-one year old Derwayne Swift says he was driving his Mitsubishi Montero between miles two […]
There is plenty news to report tonight and we begin with the story of the Minister of Sports and Youth, Marcel Cardona, who got into a whole lot of trouble with the law across the border. The minister was picked up by Mexican authorities after he fled the scene of an accident. Television and press […]
Orange Walk police have detained a cane farmer in connection with a traffic accident in which a man from that northern municipality lost his life. The mishap occurred around twelve-fifteen this morning in front of Cyber Walk Computer Place on Otro Benque Road. Police say that forty-eight year old Allan Gentle was riding a bicycle […]
And in a traffic mishap over the weekend, the Tush family of San Roman Village in the Cayo District is grieving the loss of a loved one, while praying for other family members in critical condition at the Southern Regional Hospital. On Saturday afternoon, police were called to the scene of a traffic accident near […]
A six-year old boy is in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after a Caterpillar Roller reversed into him late yesterday morning in Corozal Town. Six year old, Tajeed Williams of South End, was riding his bicycle on a road in the Baeza Layout Area when the Roller ran into him, he was badly injured and […]
And in another incident in the West Landivar area, just before six o’clock, a motor cycle driven by an adventurous man ran off the road. The incident occurred at the entrance to St. John’s Junior College when thirty year old Michael Brown who was driving his Honda CBR 600 motorcycle on Princess Margaret heading from […]
It’s not as common an occurrence as road collisions, but over the weekend, one more plane crash was added to the country’s list of air incidents. Around nine-forty on Sunday morning, Roy Bradley, piloting a Tropic Air Caravan made an emergency landing in the waters near Belizean Beach. The plane had just taken off from […]
A man who faces a number of charges in connection with a fatal traffic accident is out on bail. Wilfred Pascascio of Dangriga appeared on Tuesday before Magistrate Aretha Ford and was ordered to return to court on November third. The charges of Manslaughter by Negligence and Causing Death by Careless Conduct were placed following […]
Police showed no mercy when they threw the book at Corozal businesswoman in the import/export business, Gloria Hall, following a traffic accident in which her own grandson was killed. On Monday, police formally arrested and charged fifty-four year old Hall with a string of charges including manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, negligent […]
Three separate traffic accidents on Saturday have left one man dead and three others injured. Around a quarter to five on Saturday, a collision on the Western Highway claimed the life of forty-three year old Delroy Gentle Vernon. Police reports are that a bus from the national Transport fleet, driven by Sandro Salazar, and a […]
Three persons were involved in a crash on the Northern Highway, leaving one of them critically injured. At about nine-thirty Thursday night, Eusebio Urbina, was driving from Corozal to Orange Walk with twenty-two year old Lelett Calderon, a domestic of San Roman Village and Sandra Bautista, a forty-eight year old teacher, also of San Roman. […]
