A seventy-three year old woman is dead after being knocked down on the Hummingbird Highway Tuesday morning. Police say they continue to investigate which vehicle might have been responsible for the death of Gumercinda Aldana of St. Margaret’s Village. They have questioned a bus driver from Unitedville, whose school bus was seen in the area […]
Three people are hospitalised and seven others are in police custody tonight following a predawn road accident in the Corozal District. According to investigators, around four on Sunday morning officers on mobile patrol in San Joaquin village spotted a black Grand Marquis heading towards Libertad. The cops got suspicious when the car took off and […]
A Belize City man riding on the wrong side of the road was killed when he was knocked of his bicycle Sunday night. The mishap occurred in front of B.T.L headquarters on Princess Margaret Drive around six-thirty and claimed the life of sixty-four year old Lionel Leslie. Forty-six year old Ronford Wagner reported to police […]
The captain of a boat that rammed a small skiff, killing one of its occupants, has been arrested and charged with a number of criminal offenses. Forty year old Richard “Bo Peep” Sjogreen has been charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, and Negligent Harm in the death of eleven year old […]
It should have been one of the happiest days of his life but a young Dangriga resident died on his birthday following a boating accident. According to police, around eight-thirty on Monday morning, a twenty-five foot skiff captained by forty year old Richard “Bo-Beep” Sjogreen ran over a fourteen foot aluminum boat on the southern […]
And in another sad piece of news, the seven year old girl hit by a car yesterday while crossing Central American Boulevard, has died of her injuries. Derika Castillo passed away around eight last night while undergoing treatment at the K.H.M.H. The man driving the vehicle that hit her, twenty year old Andrew Craig, remains […]
Central American Boulevard near its approach to the Belcan Bridge was the scene of a traffic accident this afternoon that has left a little girl with serious injuries to her head and both legs. News Five met the man who picked her up and took her to the hospital in the same vehicle that knocked […]
Meanwhile, a police officer is tonight recovering from serious injuries sustained in a traffic accident in the Spanish Lookout community. Around five on Saturday evening constable Dayton Lewis was riding his motorcycle on Centre Road when he broadsided a Toyota Four Runner that suddenly pulled out of a driveway. Lewis suffered serious head and body […]
Forty-eight year old taxi driver Hector Menjivar, charged with two counts of Manslaughter for the death of his sons, Helson Menjivar and Allen Vargas, pleaded guilty to two counts of the lesser charge of Causing Death by Careless Conduct when he appeared today in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. Lord fined him two thousand, […]
A taxi man from Corozal Town is dead following a head-on collision between his minivan and a car on the Northern Highway this morning. The mishap occurred near Ranchito Village around seven thirty and claimed the life of Alvin Leslie of Seventh Avenue. Police say Leslie was heading towards Orange Walk Town when the car, […]
A Cayo teen has died as a result of a traffic accident. Police reports are that on Wednesday, sixteen year old Thomasita de Jesus Martinez of Central Farm was attempting to cross the Western Highway when she was hit by a pick-up truck. The sixteen year old was pronounced dead on arrival at the San […]
Another person has died following Tuesday afternoon’s traffic accident on the Southern Highway. Two of the five injured in the crash were airlifted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital last night and that’s where News Five’s Janelle Chanona picked up the story this morning. Brian Castillo, Accident Victim “I remember when we turn in and […]
Details remain sketchy but reports are that around four this evening a head on collision on the Southern highway has left one person dead and five others injured. Witnesses tell News Five that it appears a tow head truck was heading towards Dangriga when it collided with a pick-up truck that was exiting the Hopkins […]
It’s no secret that the Western Highway is slippery when wet but a few drivers learnt that lesson the hard way today. While travelling to and from the House meeting in Belmopan, we spotted no less than four accidents caused by slick conditions. No one was injured but it goes without saying that drivers should […]
It was Mark Twain who, reacting to a premature obituary, was heard to remark “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” The same could be said by a resident of the Stann Creek District whom we mistakenly killed off last night. According to a usually reliable source in the south, one Byron Williams of Pomona […]
Separate accidents over the weekend have resulted in the deaths of three people and the hospitalization of a fourth. At around four-thirty Saturday morning taxi driver Byron Williams of Pomona New Site crashed into the back of a bus at mile eleven and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road. No one was injured […]
Traffic accidents are among the top three causes of death in Belize. And that startling statistic was bolstered again this weekend as a dramatic crash on the Western Highway claimed the life a teenaged boy. News Five’s Marion Ali has that story. Marion Ali “Police say twenty-seven year old Andre Torres was travelling from Belize […]
And while investigators were dealing with bloodshed in the streets, there was also carnage on the nation’s highways as separate accidents over the weekend claimed four lives. The first occurred around eight on Friday night between miles thirty-nine and forty on the Western Highway. Police reports are that forty-eight year old Roberto Zuniga was riding […]
A head on collision on the Northern Highway has cost a Corozal teenager his life. According to police reports, shortly before ten on Thursday night, an Isuzu Trooper and a Dodge Dakota collided on the curve between miles eighty-two and eighty-three. As a result, eighteen year old Elber Guerra, his cousin, twenty-two year old Elgir […]
Separate traffic accidents over the weekend have resulted in the death of two men. About five forty-five on Friday evening, fifty-two year old Clinton Banner was riding his bicycle between miles forty-eight and forty-nine on the Northern Highway when he was knocked down from behind by Carmelita resident Anthony Lanza. Banner suffered severe head and […]
Tonight, Raul Rodriguez, a resident of Orange Walk Town is a lucky man. This morning he was discharged from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was knocked off his bicycle around eight on Sunday night by the Mile Eight community on the Western Highway. Although Rodriguez’s bike was damaged extensively we understand that the […]
In recent weeks, traffic accidents on the nation’s highways have claimed too many lives and resulted in thousands of dollars in damage. So when reports of yet another incident on the Northern Highway hit the airwaves, we feared the worse. But as I discovered, tonight two people are alive because they put safety first. Jacqueline […]
And in news just in, details are sketchy tonight but around six this evening a major accident involving a car and a Prado pulling a trailer filled with ceramic tiles collided by miles seven and a half on the Northern Highway. Unconfirmed reports suggest that at least two persons were seriously injured. According to reports, […]
Separate traffic accidents over the weekend have left one man dead and thirteen people injured. According to police, the first incident occurred just before nine on Saturday morning. Officers in Independence were called to the junction of the Southern Highway and the Georgetown Village road where they saw an extensively damaged Ford Ranger pickup on […]
Like murders, traffic accidents seem to come in clusters … and this past week has seen one of the worst. Tonight there is a new fatal crash to report and an additional death from one that occurred yesterday. But we’ll lead our coverage with developments from the horrific collision that occurred on Independence Eve. Jacqueline […]
