A truck driver whose high speed bumping of a passenger car resulted in the driver’s death has been charged. Nineteen year old Keith Budd of Burrell Boom was today arraigned by Magistrate Dorothy Flowers for the crimes of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, and driving without due care and attention. No plea […]
A baby girl was killed and several people injured when two trucks collided on the Blue Creek Road Wednesday morning in the Orange Walk District. Carlos Estrada Pinta of Peten, Guatemala, told police his Toyota Hilux crashed head-on into a red pickup being driven by Darwin Hernandez. Four month old Maribel Hernandez, who was not […]
Hit and run: it’s a crime that leaves its victim dead or injured and invariably leaves family and friends crying out for justice… and closure. The latest outrage on the road occurred in the Toledo District. Felicia Ramclam, Sister of Accident Victim ?We need to work this out you know. It?s not like we will […]
A young woman from Orange Walk was killed on Saturday when her vehicle rolled over on the road near Flower’s Bank Village. Nineteen year old Reina Mendoza was driving her Honda Accord from Burrell Boom towards Bermudian Landing when a dump truck driven by Kirk Bood tried to overtake her car, but touched the bumper. […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway on Sunday night has left four persons in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to Cayo police, initial investigations reveal that around eight p.m. forty six year old Dennis Murray was driving a bus transporting football players from a game in San Ignacio back to their home base […]
Tonight Belize City police need your help in identifying this hit and run victim who lies unconscious at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Authorities say the young man has the word “love” tattooed on the fingers of his right hand and is believed to be around eighteen years of age. He was found on September […]
It’s Belize’s number one cause of death, so I must be talking about heart disease, right? No. Cancer? Uh uh. Diabetes? Try again… Aha you say, must be murder. Nope… It’s traffic accidents that kill more Belizeans than any other single cause. And far too many of those fatal–and non fatal–collisions are rooted in drunks […]
Two pedestrians are dead as the result of separate traffic accidents and in each case drivers have been criminally charged. On Friday afternoon thirty-six year old Samuel Yarde Junior, an employee of S.E.L., was working in the area of Amara Avenue and Dean Street when he was hit by a pickup truck. That truck had […]
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying both the victim and the driver responsible for a hit and run on Wednesday night. Police say a man was knocked down by a white pickup truck around nine p.m., while walking between miles three and four on the Northern Highway. He was transported in an […]
Police had better luck in solving another hit and run that occurred on Tuesday evening. On our newscast that night we reported the incident in which a young girl was knocked down on Mahogany Street by the driver of a white Mercedes who left the scene without stopping. That driver, thirty-eight year old Ravel Cowo […]
And in another late development, viewers in Belize City are asked to be on the lookout for a white Mercedes which this evening is believed to have knocked down a little girl riding a bicycle. A phone report to News Five indicates that the hit and run occurred at the corner of Mahogany and Mopan […]
Tonight authorities need your help in identifying the victim of a traffic accident on the Western Highway. According to police reports, the victim, known only as “Corozal,” was knocked down on Wednesday night between miles four and five. He was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where he continues to lie in an unconscious state. The driver […]
This morning on the Western Highway not far from the Belize Zoo two vehicles were involved in a nasty head-on collision. Both the van and the sedan each had two occupants. Three of the four people injured were taken to hospitals in Belize City, while the driver of the sedan, Saul Lisbey, stayed on the […]
A boy has died after being hit by a van on the Western Highway just outside San Ignacio Wednesday morning. Five-year-old Dixon Maroquin Gonzales, a Guatemalan from Melchor de Mencos, suffered severe head and body injuries and was rushed to the San Ignacio hospital and then transferred to the Karl Heusner Memorial, but he passed […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway Sunday afternoon has left two people dead and sent four others to the hospital. Sixty year old Policarpio Chan and forty-six year old Eliseo Huits were riding their bicycles on the highway between miles seventy-three and seventy-four around three-thirty when they were struck from behind by a Ford […]
It seems hardly a week goes by without someone getting into a traffic accident. Particularly disturbing are recent cases of children being severely injured or killed in auto mishaps. And while there is some good news for one young victim today, she has been joined by yet another little one in the hospital. Added to […]
Police have arrested and charged a resident of Hopkins Village following a fatal traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway over the weekend. Twenty-four year old Morrison Foster has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Foster was driving a Suzuki S.U.V. on Saturday just […]
In addition to three murders over the weekend, another Belizean lost his life in a traffic accident. Eighteen year old Benson Ramclam Junior was killed on Saturday night when the truck in which he was a passenger collided with another vehicle between miles twenty-one and twenty-two on the Hummingbird Highway. Ramclam was thrown from the […]
A child from Roaring Creek is in critical condition after she was hit by a car near her village on Thursday. Police say ten year old Joanna Coc was hit by a vehicle between miles fifty and fifty-one on the Western Highway. She was rushed to the hospital with serious body injuries and remains in […]
Three people remain hospitalised at the K.H.M.H. tonight, the victims of traffic accidents in Belize City over the weekend. The first incident occurred around ten-thirty on Saturday night in which a pedestrian on Mahogany Street was knocked down by a vehicle that did not stop to render assistance. According to forty-two year old Leonal Montoya, […]
Sometime after one this afternoon the Caceres family of Belize City was heading to Altun Ha, but as their vehicle passed between miles eighteen and nineteen on the Northern Highway it made contact with a tanker that was travelling in the opposite direction. The crash caused the family’s van to run off the road, while […]
Corozal police have arrested the driver of a minivan for a fatal traffic accident over the weekend. Forty-three year old Hugo Espinoza of Chan Chen Village has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care and attention, and failure to render aid. Espinoza is accused of knocking down […]
A police officer remains hospitalised tonight after he was knocked down in Belize City on Saturday evening. According to authorities, P.C. Jody Ingram was walking to work around three-twenty that afternoon, but as he reached the Pound Yard Bridge he was hit by a car. Assistant Commissioner Crispin Jeffries “He was reporting for duty. He […]
Another traffic accident, this time in Corozal, has claimed the life of a resident of Chan Chen Village. According to Hugo Espinoza, around nine on Saturday night he was driving his Toyota minivan between miles ninety and ninety-one on the Northern Highway when Ramon Rodriguez suddenly rode his bicycle into his path. Espinoza told police […]
The Belmopan community is tonight mourning the loss of one of its own following a fatal traffic accident on the Western Highway. Twenty-four year old Nadya Castillo was a passenger in a Toyota Corolla heading toward Belize City around seven-thirty last night when it collided with an Isuzu pickup travelling in the opposite direction, near […]
