The driver of a truck involved in a fatal accident in Dangriga has been arrested and charged by police. Thirty-six year old Alex Cordova of San Lazaro Village in the Orange Walk District was driving along Market Square on Wednesday when a bicyclist, forty-seven year old Analee Flores, was caught between Cordova’s truck and a […]
Further south, cops in Dangriga are questioning the driver involved in a fatal accident. Around noon today, thirty-six year old Alex Cordova reported to police that while driving near the Central Market, a female bicyclist tried to ride between his truck and another vehicle on the street but she fell and hit her head against […]
A small plane belonging to Tropic Air made an emergency landing in a cleared area on the south side of Belize City. Fortunately, none of the four people aboard were injured and despite being stuck in the mud, the aircraft may one day return to service. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around three this afternoon, the Cessna […]
A traffic accident on the Southern Highway has left seven members of a Toledo family injured. Around two on Monday afternoon, twenty-eight year old Domingo Teck was driving his Dodge van in a southerly direction when between miles six and seven, one of the vehicle’s rear wheels broke off its axle. Teck jammed on the […]
Two families in the Belize District are in mourning tonight following a bizarre traffic accident on the Western Highway. Around seven this morning bus driver Rudolph Moses headed to work as usual. His first passenger was Dave Ramos. But as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports, minutes later, Moses would be dead and Ramos fatally injured. […]
Shortly after five this morning, a fatal traffic accident occurred on the Hummingbird Highway. According to police, a Toyota pickup, driven by Salvador Vasquez and a Mazda pickup driven by Julian Polanco were travelling in different directions when they collided. When metal hit metal, the impact had deadly consequences for a passenger sitting in the […]
Separate traffic accidents over the weekend have left three people dead. According to police reports, the first incident took place around ten-thirty on Saturday morning near Constitution Park in Belize City. Twenty-three-year old bus driver Delroy Dawson has told authorities that at that time he was heading towards Pound Yard Bridge when a man suddenly […]
Almost anyone who drives a car has at some time fantasized about what he or she would do if their car plunged under water … and how you would manage to escape. Unfortunately, that grim fantasy became reality around two this morning on the wooden bridge connecting the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa […]
Another traffic accident, this time in San Pedro Town, has also claimed a life. Police will more than likely bring charges against forty-two year old Eladio Balam after the vehicle he was driving hit and killed eight year old primary school student Jose Raudalez. According to reports, young Raudalez was heading home for lunch around […]
Well known Belizean cyclist, twenty-seven year old Leroy Trapp, better known as “Lyrics”, is dead following a traffic accident. The crash occurred on the Western Highway, just fifty yards away from where well-known businessman David Courtenay also lost his life on Friday morning. According to police reports, Trapp was driving a loaded cement truck towards […]
He was a member of one of Belize’s most prominent political families, a successful businessman, and as former Deputy Chairman of the D.F.C., was a key witness in the recent Commission of Inquiry public hearings. Tonight we regret to report that David Courtenay is dead. Sometime around five this morning, Courtenay lost control of his […]
Around eight on Friday night, U.B.’s first year student nineteen year old Ashley Monima had finished classes in Belmopan and was driving home to Corozal Town when he lost control of his Chevy van and crashed near mile seventy-five on the Northern Highway. Monima, who was wearing his seatbelt at the time, was not thrown […]
A Sandhill man is recuperating at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway over the weekend. According to police around three Sunday afternoon, Darrell Hyde was riding his bicycle between miles thirteen and fourteen when he was knocked down from behind by a Mitsubishi Gallant. The driver, thirty […]
Four days after fifty-three year old Leonides Puc was knocked down near mile eighty-five on the Northern Highway, this morning the San Narciso resident succumbed to his injuries at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Following the accident, eighteen year old Kairo Romero of Santa Rita Layout in Corozal Town was arrested and charged. Investigations revealed […]
Twenty-eight year old Mark Cho, a resident of Red Bank in the Stann Creek district, is lucky to be alive. In February, the young father of two children, was riding his bike home from work around seven at night when he was knocked down by a pickup a half mile down the road to the […]
A young woman is dead tonight following a bizarre accident in the Toledo district. According to police reports, around twelve-thirty this afternoon twenty-six year old Doris Cal missed the bus to San Antonio Village so she decided to take the one going to San Jose. But on the road, Cal’s bus caught up with the […]
A weekend traffic accident in the Toledo District has claimed the life of a Belize City man. According to Punta Gorda police, around three Saturday morning, seventy-nine year old George Grant, Sr. of Vernon Street in Belize City was driving a grey Dodge pickup near the Cerros Hills Bridge when he apparently lost control, causing […]
An early morning traffic accident in Orange Walk Town has left one woman critically injured. Thirty-seven year old Maria Santana and twenty-four year old Xandu Copo were both standing by a fence along the main road in the town when a vehicle suddenly rammed into the women. According to police, around seven forty-five this morning, […]
A traffic accident in Belize City has resulted in the death of a young man and tonight his grieving relatives need your help to track down the hit and run driver. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around one-thirty on Saturday morning, twenty-three year old Jerry Solwin Romero had just taken a friend home on Cemetery Road and […]
Despite that incident, violent crime was held to a minimum over the long holiday weekend. But the same could not be said for the slaughter that occurred on the nation’s highways. The most recent death occurred Monday evening around six in Belize City. Marisol Bradley, Sister of the Deceased “If she was sick we could […]
Two others died in weekend traffic mishaps and a third lies hospitalised in critical condition. Just after midnight Saturday morning in Orange Walk, twenty-six year old Otilla Quintanilla lost her life when she ran her Ford Escort into the back of a cane truck, between miles sixty and sixty-one on Northern Highway. Police are trying […]
The spate of traffic accidents continued over the weekend as incidents in the north and south of the country have claimed two more lives. According to police around nine on Friday night, a head-on collision between miles fifty-eight and fifty-nine involving a tow head truck and trailer and a small brown car produced fatal results. […]
Over the last two months, a spate of traffic accidents across Belize has resulted in the death or critical injury of fifteen people. The latest incident to occur on one of our highways has claimed the life of a veteran employee the Belize Social Security Board. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today […]
The latest in a disturbing series of collisions between motor vehicles and pedestrians occurred yesterday in the Stann Creek District. Today, I visited the victims at the K.H.M.H. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Forty-four year old Elida Hernandez and nine year old Maria Lopez remain in a serious condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after the […]
In related news, around seven on Wednesday night san Ignacio police were at another accident scene between miles sixty-seven and sixty-eight. At the crash site, authorities observed a blue Toyota Four Runner that had damage to the front of the vehicle and a red Isuzu pickup off the road with its four wheels in the […]
