In police news, a traffic accident on the Southern Highway has left one man dead. Reports are that just after eleven on Friday morning, a pickup collided with a cyclist near the intersection of the Southern Highway and Savannah Road. According to the driver of the vehicle, thirty-five year old Portfilio Estevez of Cow Pen […]
And in an unfortunate footnote to that story, young Jason Hsu’s first day as a Belizean didn’t seem to be a lucky one. Hsu and his family, heading back to their home in Orange Walk town, collided with this fruit truck between miles thirty-two and thirty-three on the Western Highway. Hsu says slick road conditions […]
Police investigations have led them to conclude that the death of a Placencia man on Wednesday night was in fact the result of a hit and run…and they think they can identify the car, if not the driver. Sixty-eight year old Richard Gilbert Leslie, better known as Shakey, died just before midnight about an hour […]
A Placencia man is dead and authorities are trying to find out why. A battered Gilbert Leslie, better known as Shaky, was found last night around eleven lying on the roadside near the village water tower. Suffering from injuries to the head, neck, ribs and hand, Leslie was taken to the local health centre but […]
An accident at a Corozal ferry crossing has led to the death of a motorist. Twenty-four year old Roberto Sandoval was killed on Saturday morning when the pickup truck he was driving rolled off the ferry at Pueblo Nuevo on the New River. According to police, Sandoval, his wife Maria and a sixteen-year-old minor were […]
A pedestrian and a cyclist were killed over the weekend in separate traffic accidents at opposite ends of the Northern Highway. On Friday night around seven, forty-five year old Roy Anderson of Ranchito Village was knocked down by a car as he walked between miles eighty-two and eighty-three. He was pronounced dead on arrival at […]
And in an update on Monday’s traffic accident on the Western Highway, which claimed three lives, medical authorities tell News 5 that a fourth victim, forty-four year old Martha Reimer, remains in a critical condition. Staff at Universal Health Services in Belize City say Reimer underwent surgery late this evening. She was one of four […]
It came in as a last minute bulletin on last night’s newscast, but it was not until today that the full impact of the tragic road accident was felt by the nation. Tonight, three people are dead and a fourth is barely hanging on in the hospital. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the details. Jacqueline […]
In news just in, reports to News 5 indicate that two people are dead following a collision on the Western Highway. The accident, which occurred around five this evening near mile twenty?one, involved a westbound Guatemalan tour bus operated by Linea Dorada and an eastbound minivan. Two occupants of the minivan are believed to have […]
In crime news, the driver of a car involved in the death of a motorcyclist has been arrested and charged. Rogel Cal has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention following his fatal collision with a motorcycle driven by Marlon Henderson. The accident occurred […]
While villagers came out to help put out the school fire on Saturday afternoon, a passer-by ended up losing his life as a result of a traffic accident in front of the burning building. Thirty-two year old Marlon Henderson was riding his motorcycle on the Northern Highway toward Belize City when he collided with a […]
Death by bus: a scenario that is no stranger to Belizeans. The latest incident took place on Saturday morning on the Northern Highway. According to police reports, around eight-thirty that day, a Novelo’s bus was travelling from Orange Walk to Belize City, but near mile nineteen, it collided with a cyclist. The victim was rushed […]
In other traffic news, the driver of a pickup truck that hit and killed a young student on the Hummingbird Highway on Friday evening has been charged. Charles Chevillon will answer to charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Chevillon told police that Lorena Sandoval, […]
A young woman has lost her life after being hit by a pickup truck on the Hummingbird Highway. Lorena Sandoval, a student of Saint Margaret’s Village, was attempting to cross the highway between miles thirty-three and thirty-four around four Friday evening, when she was hit by a passing pickup. The truck’s driver, Charles Chevillon, reported […]
Tonight, a Belize City man is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital suffering from head and body injuries sustained in a traffic accident around five this evening. According to twenty-year-old Steve Mahler, the driver of this Chevy pick-up truck, he was making a right hand turn from Princess Margaret Drive into St. Thomas Street when […]
Those people driving to the Chalillo site today can testify that the first rains signalling the end of the dry season made the Western Highway even more treacherous than normal. Although we’re not sure exactly what caused this accident near the Colonel English Bridge, the result was certainly dramatic. When we passed the scene around […]
A German working in Belize lost his life this morning in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Fifty-two-year-old Michael Runge was driving his Toyota pickup between miles thirty-four and thirty-five in the direction of Belmopan when sometime before six a.m. he lost control of the vehicle and it overturned. Runge was thrown out of […]
One woman is dead and another remains hospitalised after the car they were travelling in flipped on the Western Highway on Sunday night. According to police, the accident occurred around eight p.m. as twenty-nine year old Doris Martinez was returning to Belize City after spending a day at the National Agricultural and Trade Show in […]
A road accident in the Cayo District has claimed the life of a U.S. citizen. Melissa Cavanaugh, 30 years of age, was headed east from San Ignacio on the Western Highway just after midnight on Wednesday morning, when near the entrance to Georgeville she lost control of her Chevy pickup. The truck hit a tree […]
A body found last week on the Western Highway has finally been identified. The apparent victim of a traffic accident is eighteen-year-old Rueben Salazar of the Stann Creek Valley road. Salazar’s body, displaying injuries to the head and torso, was found late Wednesday night near mile twenty-one and a half. Speculation is that Salazar either […]
An early morning hit and run in Belize City has left a cyclist in the hospital and a driver under arrest. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from a busy, troublesome intersection. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting “I did not know I knocked down someone.” That is what police say eighteen-year-old Michael Heusner told them after he hit […]
And in another traffic tragedy, an Orange Walk woman is dead following a freak accident in which she was crushed between two vehicles. According to police, twenty-six year old Aminta Cornejo of San Francisco Street was leaned over the engine compartment of her car trying to get it started when she apparently succeeded. The vehicle […]
The driver of a vehicle that killed a man crossing the Hummingbird Highway on Saturday has been arrested and charged. Bill Nidiver of Maya Beach on the Placencia Peninsula has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Nidiver’s Toyota Four Runner fatally injured Pedro […]
The streets of Belize City were not the only killing fields this weekend as the roads in the south also saw their share of bloodshed. On Friday afternoon twenty-four year old Jose Sho of San Vicente Village, Toledo, was run over by the pickup truck in which he was riding. How is this possible? According […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway over the weekend has claimed the life of a Belize City woman. Violeta Canto Perez was killed when the van in which she was a passenger overturned between miles thirty-four and thirty-five. Her husband, Oscar Perez of Hyde’s Lane, was driving the vehicle toward Orange Walk on Sunday […]
