It happened exactly a year ago, and while that hardly qualifies the event as hot copy, the significance of the massive traffic accident is as fresh as any late breaking news story. Especially significant is that unlike many Belizean tragedies, it appears that this one has galvanized the nation into a collective change in behaviour. […]
And in news just in from the police press office, it appears that a pedestrian has been killed in a Cayo traffic accident. The body of twenty-four year old Byron Canto was found on the Cristo Rey Road around three-thirty Sunday morning. Later in the day twenty-year old Carlos Rodriguez reported to police that he […]
It was not a particularly good weekend for police as in at least two instances the conduct of individual officers has left civilians with major complaints, not to mention serious injuries. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has been investigating the incidents since morning and finds that, in the case of a traffic accident on Saturday night, […]
Life is increasingly cheap on the streets of Belize City… and this trend is reflected not just in the proliferation of firearms, but in the equally dangerous weapons known as motor vehicles. On Thursday afternoon a family of pedestrians barely escaped death at the hands of a cowardly young driver who has still not been […]
Traffic accidents on the Western and Northern Highways over the holidays have left two people dead and several others with varying degrees of injuries. On Wednesday evening, a Ford Ranger pickup truck with six passengers in the pan overturned between miles thirty-seven and thirty-eight on the Western Highway. The driver of the vehicle, Edward Gonzalez, […]
A tragic accident on Wednesday morning that killed a young Orange Walk man has resulted in charges being filed against the two drivers involved in the incident. After a second day of investigation by police, twenty-one year old Francisco Sabido, driver of the Saturn that hit a white Honda Accord on the Northern Highway, has […]
A night of merrymaking, lots of booze, and two speeding cars on the Northern Highway were a recipe for disaster early this morning in the Orange Walk District. According to police, a group of eight friends had gone out on the town Tuesday night and around three-thirty on Wednesday morning boarded separate vehicles and headed […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway near the Faber’s Road junction in Belize City has claimed one man’s life and left his passenger seriously injured. Around eight-fifteen this morning a small pickup truck heading west on the highway made a left turn into an automotive shop at mile two and a half. But before […]
A Belize City taxi driver has been charged after hitting three children on a crosswalk Tuesday morning. Six-year-old Akeen Gooding was the most severely injured and is in serious condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Taxman Louis Hynes appeared in court yesterday and was charged with negligent grievous harm, driving without due care and […]
A man from the Corozal District is dead following a traffic accident this morning on the Northern Highway. Twenty-nine year old Harish Mirpuri of Santa Rita was travelling south towards Orange Walk when between miles seventy-four and seventy-five he lost control of his Ford Ranger pickup. The vehicle rolled over several times and Mirpuri was […]
Police are investigating a traffic accident on Saturday that has resulted in the death of a young Toledo man. Twenty-one year old Thomas Rash of Laguna Village was riding his bike on the Southern Highway two miles outside Santa Rosa Village around six forty-five p.m. when he was struck by a Jeep Cherokee. The vehicle […]
Charges have been filed against a Hattieville taxi man following the death of a five-year-old child. George Lewis was charged today with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Tyra Gillett died early Wednesday morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. She never regained consciousness after being […]
Tonight we regret to announce that a five-year-old victim of a traffic accident, Tyra Gillett, died early this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Tyra never regained consciousness and doctors had told the family her head and body injuries were so massive it would take a miracle for her to recover. On Friday, Gillett […]
Early this afternoon the combination of a roving child, smooth highway and fast moving taxi sent a little girl from Hattieville to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with injuries that threaten to claim her life. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods arrived at the scene to find that it was a case of history repeating itself. Jacqueline […]
Police are tonight looking for the driver of a pickup truck who fatally injured a pedestrian on the Western Highway. The dead man is nineteen-year-old Jose Gonzales of La Democracia Village. Around seven this morning Gonzales was walking on the highway having just gotten off a bus near mile thirty-one, when he was struck by […]
Meanwhile, Orange Walk police are also investigating a traffic accident on Monday night, which left an elderly man dead. According to police reports, sixty-seven year old Guadalupe Alonzo of Tower Hill was riding his bike on the Northern Highway between miles fifty-two and fifty-three when he was knocked down. Alonzo was rushed to the Northern […]
It has become a notorious strip of highway, and this weekend–yet again–police and rescue personnel were called to the scene of another fatal accident. This time it was a collision between a red Toyota Corolla and white Plymouth van. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-four year old Warren Lee Wade was on his way to Belmopan when […]
A child was knocked down and killed in the Orange Walk District on Friday morning. Nine-year-old Juan Carlos Velasquez was standing on Santa Familia Street when a towhead truck driven by Felipe Leiva of Orange Walk hit him. He was rushed to the Northern Regional hospital, but had sustained serious injuries and was pronounced dead […]
One aspect of the tourism boom that Belize City residents may have noticed is the proliferation of motor scooters driven by some of those hundreds of thousands of cruise ship visitors. When two scooter rental businesses opened earlier this year near the Tourism Village, it was predicted that mishaps would follow. Patrick Jones reports that […]
Two people are dead tonight and two more have been injured, the victims of road accidents in Cayo and Belize City. The first happened around five o’clock on Sunday morning when sixty-two year old Oliver Wade was knocked down as he rode his bike across the Belcan Bridge. Police say the man was hit by […]
The death of Agripino Cawich is not the only one we note tonight. We have been informed that forty-four year old Martha Reimer, severely injured in a road accident on June twenty-third, passed away on July eighteenth in Guatemala City. Reimer never regained consciousness following the collision on the Western Highway that also claimed the […]
In other crime news, a San Pedro taxi driver has been arrested following the death of a two-year-old pedestrian. Forty-four year old Justino Chan has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention after backing over Alexia Santos near the town’s airstrip. The child was […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a Corozal man. According to police, thirty-two year old Albert Gentle was driving his Toyota Camry south from the Mexican border around ten on Tuesday morning when, between miles eighty-five and eighty-six, he ran into a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction. Gentle […]
A mechanical failure is being blamed for a death on the streets of San Ignacio. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Shortly after eight on Saturday morning, Helen Simmons tragically lost her husband of twenty-nine years after he was knocked down and killed just across from where they lived. Helen Simmons, […]
A Belizean businessman has died in a traffic accident in the Peten district of Guatemala. Family members say Daniel Choe was only minutes away from his destination when the crash occurred. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spoke to the grieving relatives this afternoon. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Thursday morning, well known Belize City businessman, forty-six-year-old Daniel […]
