Tonight the family and friends of police sergeant Alford Grinage are hoping that the officer fully recovers from injuries sustained in a traffic accident on the Western Highway on Wednesday night. According to authorities, Grinage was travelling from Belize City towards Hattieville Village when somewhere between miles seven and eight he tried to over take […]
A traffic accident on the Southern Highway Thursday night has claimed one life. Twenty-six year old Armando Gomez, a resident of Mile six on the Southern Highway, was knocked down as he walked on the side of the road around six forty last night. Twenty-one year old Clifford Calam of Placencia told police that he […]
A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a pickup truck on the Western Highway. According to police reports, sixty-year-old George Francis was struck around six thirty Thursday night between miles two and three, near the Belize Waste Control dump site. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The driver […]
Fortunately, no one was killed, but a road accident Monday evening between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo has left a trail of pain stretching across two Belize City hospitals. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-four year old Gessy Hernandez is just one of five passengers who were seriously injured after the […]
For the second time in less than two weeks a serious boating accident has occurred in Belizean waters; this time it proved fatal. US national Raymond Link was snorkeling off a kayak about a half mile from the split at Caye Caulker when he was run over by a speeding skiff. According to Link’s wife, […]
Two children from the Stann Creek District have been seriously injured after they were hit by a bus. Nine year old Kendy Castellanos and thirteen year old Roni Sanchez were attempting to cross the Valley Road in Alta Vista Village on Sunday afternoon when they were struck by the Southern Transport bus. Driver Javier Flores […]
And in news just in…a boating accident this afternoon offshore San Pedro town has left two people seriously injured. According to police press officer G. Michael Reid, a boat being piloted by thirty-three year old Amado Watson, ran over a smaller boat and its two occupants. Twenty-seven year old Anthony Thomas and thirty-one year old […]
Three children have lost their lives in two separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Saturday morning, six-year-old Samantha Jones of Esperanza was killed when she was hit by a pickup truck while attempting to cross the Western Highway. The driver, thirty-two year old Jose Guerra of Santa Elena, told police that as he was […]
And in related news, we regret to report that eighteen-year-old Ellion Augustine, the subject of a story we ran on Friday, has died of his injuries. Augustine had been left paralyzed from the neck down following a traffic accident on the night of October thirtieth. He was on a respirator being prepared for evacuation to […]
Some time late last Saturday night three friends, all members of the Belize Family Life Association, were on their way to Punta Gorda. But as their vehicle approached the Gales Point junction on the Coastal Road, the driver lost control and the Landrover turned over several times. Eighteen-year-old Ellion Augustine was thrown out of the […]
In their zeal to get to Antelope Street for the weapons bust, one of the police units accidentally struck an area resident. The elderly man was knocked unconscious and now he and his wife are struggling to deal with his injuries and get some assistance from the police. News 5 spoke with the couple this […]
A mid afternoon traffic accident on the Western Highway has left four people, including two police officers, hospitalized in Belize City. Around two o’clock this afternoon Special Constable Steve Wade was heading towards Belize City in this Ford Escort when between miles seven and eight, he apparently lost control and the vehicle ran off the […]
A cyclist fatally injured in a road accident may have died due to his own refusal of medical treatment. Forty-seven year old Estelito Catch of Xaibe Village in Corozal was riding his bike through the intersection of Seventh Avenue and the San Andres Road on Friday afternoon when he was knocked down by a taxi. […]
Investigations continue into a motorcycle accident in Belize City that left a young man dead. Around eleven Monday morning, twenty-two year old Haseef Hassan was driving a GSXR 750 on Seashore Drive when something went very wrong. The bike slammed into this cement fence and stayed there for the entire length of the property. Tracks […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a fifteen year old hitchhiker. According to police reports, late Saturday night, thirty year old Jerome Goff was heading home from a party when he stopped at the airport junction in Ladyville to pick up a young man whom he knew only as […]
In the ward with Stanwell Arana is twenty-seven year old John Conorquie who was hit by a moving vehicle on Friday afternoon near Belize Waste Control on the Western Highway. Police reports are that Conorquie was crossing the street near the entrance to the dump when he was struck by a van heading towards Belmopan. […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has left a resident of the Cayo District dead. According to police reports, forty-five year old Carlos Oscar Lara was driving his Toyota Previa from Belize City to San Ignacio in the early morning hours of Saturday. But between miles sixty-nine and seventy, the van went off the […]
An accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a Ladyville man. According to police reports, around six twenty on Monday evening, sixty-nine year old Eulogio Perez was crossing the highway between miles nine and ten when he was hit by an oncoming SUV travelling to Belize City. The driver, thirty-four year old […]
The murder that took place over the weekend in Cotton Tree was not the only death to occur in that historic Village. Only a few hours before the killing of Gilroy Blancaneaux, two other members of the community lost their lives nearby in a traffic mishap. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-eight year […]
A hit and run accident on the Southern Highway has left one man dead. According to police in Independence Village, early this morning motorists informed them that a body was lying on the Southern Highway near the Swasey Bridge. When officers reached the scene, they found the body of a man, apparently dead, with severe […]
Anyone who tries to navigate the streets of Belize City knows that it’s a miracle that more pedestrians and cyclists are not killed by cars, trucks and buses. But the fact is that every now and then people do die…that’s exactly what happened this morning. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This is the bicycle nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Gushon […]
A traffic accident early this morning on the Western Highway has claimed the life of one person and left several others injured. According to police, a Mitsubishi pickup truck and an Isuzu Rodeo travelling in opposite directions collided head on, between miles thirty-one and thirty-two. Driver of the Rodeo, twenty-six year old Austin Castro of […]
Details are sketchy tonight but News 5 understands that the crash of an ultralight aircraft on Ambergris Caye has claimed the life of a tourist. According to San Pedro Police, around three thirty this afternoon, South African Martin David Walker and an American woman were taking off from the San Pedro runway in their tiny […]
It?s a scene that has traumatized far too many Belizeans: mangled metal, broken glass, blood on the asphalt…every year traffic accidents claim lives, destroy families and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to property. But as News 5?s Jacqueline Woods discovered, drivers can avoid a lot of pain and suffering by simply following the rules […]
Two bicyclists have lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Friday afternoon around three thirty, thirty-one year old Jose Domingo Catalan, a resident of La Democracia, was knocked down by a vehicle travelling between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine on the Western Highway. He suffered numerous head and body injuries and died […]
