Another fatal traffic accident has occurred, this time on the Northern Highway. Police reports are that around ten-thirty last night officers were called to an area between miles seventeen and eighteen where they found an extensively damaged burgundy Ford Explorer on the right side of the road with its four wheels in the air. Closer […]
Meanwhile, a third person has died as a result of Wednesday’s traffic accident near Belmopan. According to police, around five this morning thirty-two year old Ana Cannasales succumbed to her injuries at the Western Regional Hospital. The young mother was one of seven people who were hurt when the driver of the pickup they were […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway this morning has resulted in the death of a man and his infant daughter. Reports to News Five are that just after eleven this morning a two-door Chevy pickup truck was heading from Belize City to the Guatemalan border, but as it neared the curve near George Price […]
A bicyclist killed in a hit and run has finally been identified, but police have yet to discover who knocked him down. The deceased is twenty-seven year old Wilmer Montoya, an employee of Kerbo Farms near Kendal in the Stann Creek District. Montoya was found lying unconscious on the Southern Highway at two a.m. on […]
Police have still not laid any charges against the drivers of the bus or the truck involved in last week’s traffic accident in which six people lost their lives and eighteen were injured. The truck, driven by thirty-four year old Michael Escalante, was heading towards Belize City while the bus, driven by Tyrone Gillett, was […]
Tonight six people are dead and eighteen others are injured following a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Just after eleven this morning, a National Transport bus carrying twenty-four passengers was bound for Belmopan when it collided with a delivery truck near mile thirty-five. While investigations into the cause of the crash have yet to […]
Thirty-three year old Alberto Chan has been charged in connection with the traffic accident on Tuesday that left Ralph Fonseca Junior and Ralph Balderamos dead. Chan, of Orange Walk Town, was charged with two counts each of Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Negligent Grievous Harm, and one count of Driving without Due […]
More details are emerging regarding the accident that claimed the lives of Ralph Fonseca Junior and Ralph Balderamos on the Northern Highway Tuesday afternoon. Police report that the Prado, driven by Balderamos, was travelling south between miles fifty-one and fifty-two. Driving in the opposite direction was a pickup that was towing a trailer loaded with […]
The rumours flew all afternoon but we can now confirm that two men are dead as the result of a traffic accident on the Northern Highway near Tower Hill. One of the dead, Ralph Fonseca Junior, is the son of Minister of Home Affairs, Ralph Fonseca Senior. The other is Ralph Balderamos, who it is […]
A teacher from San Pablo Village in the Orange Walk District is dead following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. Police believe it was a combination of alcohol and reckless driving that took the life of thirty-seven year old Adriano Nicholson. Authorities say witnesses told them that around six thirty on Saturday evening they […]
Reports reaching News Five indicate that the two pilots of a British Army helicopter that crashed yesterday are uninjured but will undergo routine tests just to make sure. The Bell 212 went down on a training mission around noon on Wednesday at the Nova Shrimp Farm in Ladyville. It was totally destroyed by fire after […]
Details are sketchy tonight but reports are that around noon today British soldiers attached to BATSUB were injured in a helicopter crash. According to our sources, the army personnel were engaged in a training exercise using a Bell 212 helicopter, also known as a Huey, to transport external cargo between the helipad at Price Barracks […]
An accident at sea created a bizarre sight in San Pedro on Wednesday afternoon as islanders were shocked to see a truck trying to swim. According to our sources, around three yesterday afternoon a Belize City water bowser bound for the construction sites on the northern part of the island rolled off the barge and […]
A traffic accident on the Southern Highway over the weekend has claimed the life of a Cayo man. According to police, around three-thirty on Saturday afternoon motorists alerted them to an accident near the Independence junction. When officers showed up, they found an extensively damaged KIA S.U.V. off the right shoulder of the road and […]
Deputy Mayor Michael also took the opportunity to weigh in on a story we ran on Monday night’s newscast. He says preliminary investigations have revealed that alcohol was not a factor in the accident that caused one of their traffic officers, Mark Banner, to crash into a light pole near the Bridge Foot over the […]
The vehicle crashed into the light pole near the bridge foot on Friday night and on Saturday morning it was still there. Reports reaching News Five indicate that the vehicle was being driven at the time by Belize City traffic officer Mark Banner, along with two passengers. Banner has yet to be charged and police […]
A collision on the Western Highway near Cotton Tree Village has left one person dead and two seriously injured. According to police reports, the crash occurred around five-thirty on Tuesday evening. Preliminary investigations reveal that fifty-four year old St. Matthews Village resident Timoteo Gonzales was heading home from Belmopan in his Ford ranger pickup, but […]
A young man died over the weekend as the result of a traffic accident. Around midnight Sunday, twenty-nine year old Enrique Martinez lost control of the Nissan Xterra he was driving on the Northern Highway between miles three and four. It ran off the road and turned over, causing the fatal injuries. Martinez, a native […]
A Toledo teenager badly hurt in a road accident last week has died of his injuries. Thirteen year old Julian Coc–his name was mistakenly reported to police as Pop–succumbed on Saturday at the K.H.M.H. He had been knocked off his bicycle on Thursday night by a motorcycle while riding on the Southern Highway in the […]
A Toledo teenager remains in critical condition tonight following a traffic accident on the Southern Highway on Thursday. According to police reports, around seven last night thirteen year old Juan Pop Junior was riding his bicycle while a friend walked beside him. But between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight, the young cyclist was flung from the […]
A woman and young boy are dead following a traffic accident that occurred this morning near Trial Farm in the Orange Walk District. According to police reports, around eleven-fifteen, twenty-eight year old Silvana Vellos of San Andres Village in the Corozal District was heading on the Northern Highway towards Orange Walk Town in her Toyota […]
They were not fatal, but wet weather over the weekend contributed to a number of other traffic accidents. The first occurred around six on Saturday evening on the Southern Highway and left ten people hospitalised. Twenty-eight year old Tashira Wagner of Independence Village told police she was carrying fifteen passengers in her Isuzu pickup truck […]
Traffic on the Hummingbird Highway came to a standstill early this morning after an eighteen wheeler jack-knifed across the road. According to Guatemalan driver Carlos Lima, around six-thirty a.m. he was heading towards Dangriga with forty tonnes of cement on his flatbed, but as he attempted to ascend the hill between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine, […]
While the National Fire Service continues to take heat for its delayed response to the Prince Street blaze, tonight the department also has to fend off flak for a traffic accident involving one of its drivers and a pedestrian. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Fifty year old Michael Young better known “Indio” told News Five today that […]
Traffic accidents over the weekend have left a man dead and a woman critically injured. Around three on Saturday morning twenty year old Randy Ramclam drove his pickup truck into a parked car in Independence Village causing the pickup to turn over. Ramclam was thrown out of the vehicle on impact and was crushed when […]
