The driver believed to have caused Sunday night’s traffic accident on the Northern Highway, which left two people dead, has been charged. According to police, thirty-two year old Gustavo Cardenas Junior of Orange Walk town will answer to two counts of manslaughter by negligence, two counts of causing death by careless conduct, negligent wounding, failure […]
And this afternoon, near the opposite end of the Northern Highway, another vehicle went out of control, although no one was seriously injured. Around three-thirty, thirty-six year old Rigoberto Valdez of Orange Walk drove his Toyota Hilux off the road near mile seven and a half where its forward motion was stopped by a tree. […]
The northern approach to Belize City has a well deserved reputation for vehicular danger, but a fatal accident that took place on the highway last night has the victim’s family, not to mention police, shaking their heads in disgust. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting For the past three and a […]
The driver detained after the hit and run of a police officer in Orange Walk has been arrested and charged…and they threw the book at him. Thirty-one year old Edilberto Gutierrez has been arraigned on charges of attempted murder, negligent grievous harm, driving without due care and attention, driving with alcohol concentration above the prescribed […]
A young girl from the Stann Creek District is dead tonight, the victim of a traffic accident on the Southern Highway. According to police, just after six on Sunday evening, fifteen year old Suzie Teul of Maya Mopan Village had just gotten off a bus near mile twenty-five and was running across the road when […]
Meanwhile, a Corozal man is detained tonight pending charges for the hit and run of a police officer. On Sunday evening, Sergeant Francisco Ack and several other colleagues were manning a checkpoint near Trial Farm, just north of Orange Walk Town on the Northern Highway. Around six-twenty, a cane truck approached the officers, but instead […]
Meanwhile, the Belizean legal community, and indeed, the public at large, has been abuzz this week with speculation on how the case of Monday’s four-car traffic pileup, believed to be caused by the Director of Public Prosecutions, will play out. According to Attorney General Godfrey Smith, the situation is unusual but it will be handled […]
In crime news police have released the blood tests administered to drivers of vehicles involved in Monday’s traffic pileup on the Northern Highway. They report that no driver had blood alcohol levels above the legal limit. Two witnesses report that the accident, which has left a young girl in critical condition, was caused by the […]
According to police, the results of blood alcohol tests administered to four drivers involved in Monday’s pileup on the Northern Highway are not yet available. Reports from eyewitnesses say the accident was triggered by the erratic movements of a government owned Mitsubishi Montero being driven by Director of Public Prosecutions, Kirk Anderson. Today Edmund Humphreys, […]
This weekend the nation’s highways proved deadly for three Belizeans in separate traffic accidents. Just after five on Friday, sixty-one year old Apolinar Chen was knocked off his bicycle by a Toyota pickup as he was riding on the San Antonio-Punta Gorda road. According to the driver, twenty-six year old Antonio Tush, the cyclist suddenly […]
And believe it or not, today, the bloody dance of metal on asphalt was still going, this time on the Northern Highway. Traffic was backed up for over an hour near mile seven when just after noon a four-vehicle pile up blocked the highway. According to police at the scene, the three vehicles were heading […]
A farmer from Belmopan is dead tonight, the victim of a hit and run accident. According to police, late Sunday night motorists spotted the body of a man lying across the Hummingbird Highway, near Las Flores Village, suffering from multiple head and body injuries. He was transported to the Belmopan Hospital where authorities pronounced him […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has left a Guatemalan man hospitalised. Thirty-eight year old Carlos Gomez was a passenger in a pickup truck that went out of control near mile twenty-one around five Tuesday evening. The truck, driven by sixty-four year old Nicaraguan George Brooks, ran off the road, coming to a stop […]
No one was seriously injured, but two vehicles were heavily damaged this morning in a mishap on the outskirts of Belize City. A G.M.C. pickup was heading into town on the Northern Highway around nine a.m. when upon reaching mile two and a half, two trucks emerged from the Budget Rent-A-Car lot, one towing the […]
Three residents of the Stann Creek District perished after the car they were travelling in over turned and burst into flames. The accident occurred around three Sunday morning near mile five on the Stann Creek Valley Road. According to reports, co-workers, twenty-one year old Royston Castillo and twenty-eight year old Louis Barillas and a friend, […]
A woman from the Cayo District is dead tonight, the victim of a traffic accident on the Mountain Pine Ridge road. According to San Ignacio police, Vidalina Deaupres, a Mexican living in Santa Elena, was out with friends on Thursday morning when the pick up truck she was travelling in overturned. Deaupres, who had been […]
The first reports raised fears that it was a tragedy on the magnitude of January’s fatal crash on the Western Highway. But fortunately, while the sight of the overturned bus looked bad, in the end even the worst injuries were relatively minor. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Novelos bus was carrying twenty-nine passengers […]
Tonight, a twelve-year-old primary school student lies unconscious in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was knocked off her bicycle on Saturday afternoon. According to police, around noon that day Melanie Conorquie was riding her bike along the Western Highway near Lord Ridge Cemetery when she was hit by a truck. Authorities say driver […]
Today, her family made the painful decision to remove twenty-four year old Tanya Lamb from a machine that was keeping her alive at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Lamb, the mother of a two-year-old girl, suffered severe head and body injuries following a traffic accident that occurred around 5:30 Sunday evening in Belize City. According […]
The national malady of death by motor vehicle continued to rage out of control over the weekend with three killed in two separate incidents. We’ll begin closest to the city where a dangerous curve, a dark night and some risky behaviour ended the life of a Belize City man. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Olivera family […]
On Friday night two men died in the Stann Creek District when their vehicle barrelled through an intersection and ran off the road. Twenty-six year old Peter Ciego and forty-year-old Edward Nicassio, both of Dangriga, were travelling west on the Hopkins Village entrance road. But when they reached the T-shaped intersection with the Southern Highway, […]
It was a traffic accident that shocked and saddened two nations. Now, several days after the death of a Cuban volunteer doctor, the man driving her on that fateful morning is telling his story to News 5… And what he has to say totally contradicts the truck driver on the other side of the collision. […]
It is a sight that is becoming all too familiar on Belize’s highways: shattered glass, mangled metal, broken bodies and a one-way ambulance ride to the K.H.M.H. The latest fatal traffic accident was particularly tragic in that it cut short the work of a woman whose profession is dedicated to the saving of life, not […]
A taxi driver who turned himself in to authorities following a fatal hit and run has been charged by Corozal police. Forty-five year old Robedo Maldonado has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, driving without due care and attention, failure to report a traffic accident, failure to stop and render aid and resisting arrest. The […]
An elderly man is dead after he was knocked down on Friday night on the Northern Highway. According to police, sixty-nine year old Jesus Vasquez of Chan Chen Village was walking in the village when he was hit by a car. As Vasquez lay bleeding on the ground, suffering from serious head and body injuries, […]
