A woman from Belize City is dead following a traffic accident early this morning on the Northern Highway. News Five understands that twenty-eight year old Grace Bowen, of Croton Lane in Belize City, was driving to meet a sister in Corozal Town. However, she never made it when shortly after midnight her green Plymouth Voyager […]
Separate weekend accidents in Cayo and Corozal have caused a death and left three persons injured. Around two-fifty on Sunday morning police received a call that an injured man was lying along the Bullet Tree Road. When they arrived on the scene, police found fifty year old Gustavo Manzanero suffering from injuries to the head […]
A fisherman narrowly escaped death this evening when the sailboat in which he was traveling capsized about half a mile out of Belize City Harbour. The unnamed man was reportedly trapped below decks when the boat filled with water. A rescue was made by a launch belonging to Hugh Parkey’s Dive Connection and the injured […]
Meanwhile, an accident on the Chiquibul Road has left a Belize Defence Force solider dead and eight others injured. According to Commander Dario Tapia, Corporal and medic Zaccheus Pop was escorting a group of recruits from the Mountain Pine Ridge base camp to the San Ignacio Hospital for medical treatment around eight on Saturday morning. […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed yet another life. According to police, around four on Thursday morning they responded to reports that a car had turned over near the Kontiki Gas Station just outside San Ignacio. When cops arrived they found a badly damaged Mazda car and the body of a man […]
It’s the scene of many fender benders but this afternoon the Western Highway’s intersection with Western Avenue was the site of a serious accident. According to Tillett’s Bus driver Emelio Soler, he was heading to Corozal following a school trip to Spanish Lookout and Old Belize but as he made the left turn, a car […]
A head on collision on the Boom/Hattieville Road on Sunday evening resulted in the loss of one life. Reports to News Five are that thirty-two year old Sergio Gongora was driving towards Fresh Pond around six thirty when his silver Hyundai crashed into a Ford Ranger headed in the opposite direction. Gongora, whose family owns […]
A family of four escaped serious injury or death this evening when this four-door Mazda flipped several times on the Western Highway. Driver of the vehicle, twenty-seven year old Leon Usher, an employee of Advance Advertising and resident of Gibnut Street in Belize City, was heading from Belmopan towards the old capital when at mile […]
Three people lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. Reports to News Five indicate that around ten on Sunday morning, a Toyota Prado heading towards Belmopan was attempting to overtake a bus between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight on the Western Highway when it collided head on into a Toyota Corolla coming from […]
As motorists we hardly think of a vehicle as a deadly weapon but that’s just what it is when used recklessly. And as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, while death is tragic, victims who survive tell heart wrenching stories. Kendra Griffith, Reporting In 2006, traffic accidents resulted in forty-seven deaths and six hundred and fifty-two […]
A young woman from the Orange Walk District has lost her life in a traffic accident, a mishap made more tragic in that the driver of the car that hit her was her own brother. Shortly after eight p.m. on Wednesday twenty-three year old Lina Wiebe was taking her usual stroll along the road that […]
Investigations continue tonight into a traffic accident that sent four people to the hospital over the weekend. According to police, around five-forty-five on Sunday evening, a white Plymouth travelling east toward Belize City collided with a BWEL delivery truck heading in the opposite direction near mile five on the Western Highway. The van’s driver, seventy-five […]
A man narrowly escaped death when a Toyota pick-up truck collided head on into his motorcycle on Saturday afternoon in San Ignacio. The mishap occurred around two on Joseph Andrews Drive. Police say twenty-two year old Kenroy Mendez was on a motor cycle heading from the direction of Sacred Heart College towards the Benque Road, […]
Police continue to investigate Thursday’s tragic road accident which claimed the lives of a husband and wife from the Orange Walk district. News Five has learnt that sixty-two year old Enrique and Halina Petkau from Shipyard were heading towards Orange Walk in their Kia Sportage when the vehicle collided head on into a Courts delivery […]
Late unofficial word to our newsroom is that there has been a fatal traffic accident on the Northern Highway. The mishap occurred around four-thirty this evening near mile twenty-six in Biscayne Village. We understand that the head-on collision involved a delivery truck and an S.U.V. The deceased are both Mennonites from the Orange Walk District. […]
A second man has died as a result of Friday night’s traffic accident on Coney Drive. Nineteen year old Zhi Heng Deng, known as Dennis, died of his injuries this morning following intensive efforts to save his life. He was the driver of the Lexus which went out of control at high speed and crashed […]
Loss of life this weekend was not confined to gunfire, as on Friday night Coney Drive became the scene of a deadly traffic accident. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the details. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This was the scene around seven on Friday night. According to witnesses, around six-thirty, nineteen year old Zhi Heng Deng, also […]
A flight from San Pedro to Belize City is a mere eighteen to twenty minutes … but this morning time stopped for the occupants of a single engine air ambulance after their aircraft malfunctioned while landing at the municipal airstrip. News Five’s Marion Ali was on the scene and reports that thankfully no one was […]
Tourists from the cruise ship Norwegian Spirit experienced an unexpected Belizean adventure today when the bus they were traveling in ran into a pickup on the Western Highway. Around nine-thirty this morning Trans Tours was taking a number of passengers by bus to a cave tubing site when upon reaching mile two they collided into […]
Bad weather over the weekend made for slick road conditions which produced a number of minor traffic accidents … but one stood out. This was the scene Sunday morning between mile forty-four and forty-five near Cotton Tree village on the Western Highway. According to the driver, Belmopan resident Godfrey Ramos, he and his wife were […]
A delivery truck driver was rushed by ambulance to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital this morning following an accident on Cemetery Road. Around nine this morning, Twenty-seven year old Earl Johnson, accompanied by another employee of Sunnyside Bakery, was driving down the busy street when it appears he tried to avoid rear ending the vehicle […]
He was the victim of a hit and run driver last summer but tonight a seventy-year old Belize City man is claiming he’s being victimized by the insurance industry. Amos Wright was knocked off his bicycle on Central American Boulevard last July. The driver involved, Dennis Robinson was arrested four months later and pled guilty […]
A man is dead tonight after he was run over by a citrus trailer on which he was riding on the Hummingbird Highway. Thirty-seven year old Richard Velasquez of Pomona Village was crushed around three-thirty yesterday afternoon just as he had reached his destination. According to twenty year old Gerald Rancharan, driver of the tractor […]
Thirty-one year old Cruz Seren, a Belizean clothes vendor, charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Causing Death by Careless Conduct today in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. Instead of giving her a custodial sentence, Lord fined her two thousand, five hundred dollars. He ordered Seren to pay half […]
Speed is often a factor of traffic accidents in Belize but one heavy footed driver seems to have defied the laws of physics with his stunt on Saturday. According to eyewitnesses, around ten that night, a Mitsubishi SUV was spotted barreling down Princess Margaret Drive. The driver switched lanes near Baymen Avenue and collided head […]
