It’s one of the most dangerous highways in the country and even though the latest traffic accident on the Western Highway did not result in bloodshed, as Jacqueline Godwin reports, big trucks and high speeds do not equal good news. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Tonight authorities are still investigating what caused a Femagra water truck to […]
A young Dangriga resident is dead, the victim of a collision between her bicycle and a car. Ten year old Ranisha Tabon was riding her black beach cruiser around seven on Saturday morning when she was knocked down and later died at the Southern Regional Hospital. The driver held responsible for the child’s death is […]
Police in the north were equally busy as a traffic accident claimed the life of one man and left two others seriously injured. The accident occurred around four thirty on Friday evening between miles sixty-seven and sixty-eight on the Northern Highway. Corozal police report that the vehicle’s driver, identified as eighteen year old Jiladio Cawich, […]
A traffic accident on Belize’s deadliest highway has claimed yet another life and left a well-known doctor in critical condition. According to police, around two-thirty this afternoon Dr. Miguel Rosado and three others were travelling in his Toyota 4Runner from Belmopan towards Belize City. But between miles eleven and twelve on the Western Highway, eyewitnesses […]
The driver of the vehicle involved in the year’s most tragic traffic accident has been arrested and charged. According to police reports, this morning fifty-seven year old Carlos Correa Fernandez was charged with five counts of Manslaughter, five counts of Causing Death by Careless Conduct, two counts of Negligent Grievous Harm, one count of Negligent […]
Five people are dead and two have been seriously injured in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. According to witnesses, around nine this morning an Isuzu pick-up travelling at high speed went out of control and skidded into a group of passengers, who had gathered on the side of the road after their bus […]
It’s an intersection that’s seen more crushed metal than an eighties rock band, and today the crossroads of St. Thomas Street and Princess Margaret Drive saw yet another mishap. According to Emir Perez, driver of the black Isuzu Rodeo, he was heading down Princess Margaret Drive toward the Barracks when a Chevy S10, coming from […]
Tonight a veteran law enforcement officer remains hospitalized following a traffic accident on Thursday. Seventy year old Kent Haylock, a former commissioner of police and the current chief of security at the Central Bank, was travelling from Belmopan to Belize City when he lost control of his white Suzuki Vitara. The careening car hit a […]
A Belmopan family is in mourning tonight following a fatal traffic accident in the capital. Police reports are that around two thirty this morning, cops were called to an area near the hospital, where they found a badly damaged Honda Civic. On the other side of the road lay the car’s driver, twenty-three year old […]
Police say wet road conditions may have contributed to a fatal traffic accident last night on the Western Highway. Sometime around ten, thirty-three year old Anthony Espat and twenty-nine year old Roberto Escobar were heading west toward Belmopan but upon reaching between miles forty-two and forty-three Espat lost control of his Volkswagon Jetta. The car […]
A gruesome traffic accident which took place Friday night around mile twenty-five on the Northern Highway has left one man dead and another hospitalised. According to police, thirty-one year old Delphin Perez of St. Matthew’s Village was heading towards Orange Walk from Belize City when his G.M.C. truck carrying a load of logs sustained two […]
Seventy-two year old Fabian Rivero and forty-nine year old Michael Gordon are lucky to be alive after the vehicle they were travelling in was extensively damaged after it crashed into a truck carrying twenty head of cattle. The men were travelling towards Belize City when upon reaching mile twenty-eight on the Western Highway they lost […]
Police in Benque Viejo have arrested and charged a resident of that western town following a fatal traffic accident on Friday. According to the cops, around seven that evening thirty-eight year old George Anibal Orellano knocked down one year old Andy Itza while on Pedro Guerra Street. Orellano told investigators that the little boy ran […]
Also in Corozal, a traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed a life. Twenty year old Eduardo Mollinedo of Xaibe Village was a passenger in a pickup truck that collided head on with a van on Friday night north of Corozal Town on the Northern Highway. A total of fourteen other persons, primarily passengers […]
A hit and run driver has been arrested in connection with a fatal traffic accident on the Southern Highway. According to police, around six on Thursday morning they were called to a spot between miles five and six where they saw a badly damaged bicycle and the body of a man lying on the right […]
Earlier this month, a traffic accident on the Northern Highway left a father dead and his wife and children seriously injured. Tonight the survivors of that gruesome car crash need your help as they fight to stay alive. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting For almost a month now, ten year old Seleni Magana has been admitted to […]
It’s the scene of several fatal accidents and numerous fender benders … but while you might think I’m talking about one of the nation’s major highways, you’d be wrong. The intersection of St. Thomas Street and Princess Margaret Drive has also seen its fair share of blood and is responsible for thousands of dollars in […]
A traffic accident in downtown Belize City over the weekend has left one man dead. According to investigating officers, around nine on Saturday night thirty-nine year old Carlos Alamina was riding in the back of a pickup truck, but when the vehicle turned at the corner of North Front and Queen streets, Alamina fell out, […]
Two separate traffic accidents on Monday in the northern part of the country have claimed three lives. The first two fatalities occurred between miles forty-one and forty-two on the Northern Highway. Twenty-six year old Erlin Anderson of Libertad Village reported to police that he was driving from Belize City just after midday when his van […]
Separate traffic accidents over the weekend in the Stann Creek and Belize districts have left three people dead. The first occurred late Friday night near mile seventeen on the Southern Highway. Police reports are that twenty-three year old Ryan Valerio and thirty year old Tyrone Flores were heading to Dangriga when their car broadsided a […]
A traffic accident in the Corozal district has left a police officer dead. Reports are that around nine thirty on Wednesday night, Corporal Raul Magana and his family were heading to their home in San Joaquin Village when their car became involved in a three car pileup. Officers say when they arrived at the scene, […]
Police have levied charges against one of their own following a traffic accident that claimed the life of a Cayo woman. Twenty-three year old Police Constable Sherard Lawrence has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention, and operating a motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above […]
A bus driver made a leap for safety but ended up dead after he landed on his head. The bizarre tragedy occurred around five on Monday evening on the Canada Hill Road nine miles outside of Dangriga. According to police, Luis Sanchez was on his way to pick up a group of students from the […]
On last night’s newscast we reported on a young Cayo woman who was gravely injured in a traffic accident. Tonight we regret to announce that Marleni Montero has died. She passed away around five thirty this morning at the K.H.M.H. Montero was a passenger in a car driven by police officer Sherward Lawrence that ran […]
A Cayo woman injured in a road accident clings to life tonight at the K.H.M.H. And while her family maintains an anxious vigil they tell News Five that the man responsible for her injuries–a friend of the victim–has still not come forward to explain what happened. Myrsa Morales, Sister of accident Victim ?Since the accident, […]
