This morning traffic came to a temporary halt at the corner of Dolphin and Raccoon streets after a pickup truck crashed into a Trooper at the junction. According to witnesses, both vehicles were on Raccoon Street approaching the intersection when the pickup, which is the property of the Police Department, tried to overtake the Trooper, […]
An Orange Walk man lost his life over the weekend, the latest victim of a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. Reports to News 5 are that around 6:00 on Sunday evening, twenty-four year old Israel Nunez was riding his bicycle between miles forty and forty-one when he collided head on with an oncoming car. […]
The Northern Highway also proved deadly for another man, this time a resident of Xaibe Village in the Corozal District. According to police, just after 7:00 on Friday night twenty-six year old Diego Alcoser lost his life when his motorcycle collided with a Chevy Blazer. The driver of that vehicle, thirty-two year old Felipe Galaz, […]
Two children are safe tonight after they narrowly escaped possible injury and at the very least a good dunking in the Collet Canal. Reports are that the boys were playing inside a Nissan pick-up, whose pan was filled with oranges. The vehicle, which was parked facing the canal, suddenly nudged forward and plunged into the […]
A child from Ladyville is recuperating from a broken foot after a vehicle knocked him down on his way to school. The child’s mother, Mary Palma, reported to police that six-year-old Otto Palma was attempting to cross Mirage Road around 8:00 this morning when the incident occurred. He apparently misjudged the distance between himself and […]
A string of charges have been filed against a driver following Saturday’s road tragedy, which claimed the life of an eleven-year-old girl. Twenty-six year old Filiberto Gutierrez of San Victor Village, Corozal, faces writs of manslaughter by negligence, driving without due care and attention, causing death by careless conduct, and driving with alcohol content above […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has left an elderly customs guard dead. Reports are that around six thirty on Saturday night, seventy-one year old Antonio Chan, a resident of Benque Viejo, was travelling to Belize City when the pick up truck in which he was riding, crashed into the back of dump truck […]
In Orange Walk an eleven-year-old girl was killed near her home in Buena Vista Village, following a collision between a bus and a truck. Bus driver, thirty-five year-old Victor Perez, reported to police that sometime around eight on Saturday night, he was heading in a northerly direction between miles seventy and seventy-one when he noticed […]
A seven-year-old Toledo girl remains hospitalised tonight after she was hit by a car on Tuesday afternoon. Romana Cucul had just exited a school bus around 3:00 p.m. in Bladen Village and ran across the Southern Highway. She never made it, as a Mitsubishi pickup driven by thirty-five year old Jose Santos of Independence Village, […]
The total number of people killed in Monday morning’s collision on the Western Highway has now reached six. Just after seven this morning Melvin Rodriguez, who had been on life support for the last three days, succumbed to his massive injuries. Rodriguez, an employee of a Belmopan construction firm, had been riding in the passenger […]
A fifth victim in Monday’s horrific traffic accident has died. Twenty-year-old Kareem Griffith, the driver of the Kia truck, succumbed to his injuries just after nine this morning at the K.H.M.H. According to hospital authorities, Griffith not only fractured two of his legs, but sustained severe head trauma, chest injuries and a ruptured spleen. Griffith, […]
Tonight, the survivors of a traffic accident on the Western Highway, which claimed the lives of four people, remain under close medical supervision, some of them still fighting for their lives. According to hospital officials, Melvin Rodriguez, a passenger in the front seat of the Kia truck, is in critical condition, suffering from head and […]
Motorists on the nation’s streets and highways are driving a little more carefully tonight…but that warning to slow down has come at a terrible price. Four people are dead and eleven are hospitalised following a head on collision between two vehicles around 7:30 this morning on the rain slicked Western Highway. News 5’s Janelle Chanona […]
It was a busy day for emergency medical technician Dennis Smith Junior. While most of us were eating breakfast, he was working frantically to free injured motorists on the Western Highway. By noon Smith was transporting victims of an accident on the Northern Highway to Orange Walk Hospital, and on the return trip he was […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway this evening has claimed the life of a Belize City man. Thirty-two year old John Miguel, a driver for the Amandala newspaper, was on his way into the city, when around mile eight and a half, the white Isuzu pickup he was driving collided with a dump truck. […]
Police are looking for a hit and run driver who knocked down a pedestrian Saturday night on the Western Highway. Thirty-two year old Jose Felix Barrera, a Guatemalan resident of Orange Walk, was struck from behind while walking between miles thirty-six and thirty-seven around 9:00 p.m. The driver, heading in the direction of Belmopan, did […]
A farmer of Santa Elena, Cayo is dead after he was knocked down on the Western Highway Thursday night. Forty-eight year old Guatemalan Samuel de Jesus Sinturion was reportedly hit by a Toyota pick-up near mile sixty-five at around 7:30. The man who hit him, fifty-eight year old Marcus Waight of Seven Miles Village, was […]
A woman involved in a traffic accident on New Year’s Day has succumbed to her injuries. Fifty-six year old Ging Mei Lin Chan died of severe head injuries at Universal Health Services on Wednesday. Police reports are that Chan was a passenger in a Toyota Hilux pick-up heading towards Belize City when a head-on collision […]
Meanwhile, another collision, this time between a tractor and a Nissan pick-up has left the driver of the pick-up hospitalised at Belize Medical Associates in Belize City. Forty-two year old Carlos Reyes was reportedly driving towards home in Corozal Town around seven-thirty on Wednesday night when the incident occurred between miles sixty-four and sixty-five on […]
It is a brand new road as fine as any in the country…but that did not prevent the death of a Belize City man whose driving skills failed him on Saturday. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spoke to the passenger who managed to survive. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Doctors are cautiously optimistic that twenty-three year old Kafara […]
A man charged in connection with a hit and run accident on Coney Drive in late December will have to answer to several other traffic offences. According to police, thirty-seven year old Elias Alamilla, a Belize City businessman, will also face charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and operating an unlicensed […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed the life of one man and left another in the hospital, after their vehicle crashed into a house. Police say that just before 9:00 p.m. on January first, twenty year old Manuel Sosa was driving from San Ignacio to Benque Viejo when he lost control of […]
Separate traffic accidents on the Western Highway on Sunday have left twelve people recovering from various head and body injuries. According to the police, the first accident happened between miles twenty and twenty-one. Reports are that just after lunch on Sunday, construction worker George Andrews was driving his pickup truck to Belmopan when he came […]
A Toledo man is dead following a traffic mishap on the Southern Highway. Omar Palma of Forest Home lost his life when a parked car in which he was sitting was hit by a pickup truck between mile sixteen and seventeen. The other passengers in the car, Martin and Abib Palma, were seriously injured. The […]
An early morning collision on Faber’s Road has left one man suffering from a blow to the head and as many as three more running from police. The drama unfolded around nine today when this white Ford Escort was sideswiped by a red Pontiac Sunbird. According to the driver of the Ford, the accident happened […]
