Police are trying to figure out who was driving a vehicle which rammed into the back of a commercial bus, killing two people, and leaving two others seriously injured. The incident occurred at around mile seven on the Hummingbird Highway, near Armenia Village around 11 o’clock Sunday morning and claimed the lives of two year-old […]
Further north in Orange Walk, a hit and run driver discovered that while you may be able to drive away from an accident, there is no guarantee that you will get away. Shortly around 7:00 on Friday night, fifteen year old Ryan Bowden was riding his bicycle from Trial Farm to Orange Walk Town when […]
A pair of traffic accidents have left four people injured and a hit and run driver still on the loose. On Thursday police Sergeant Florentino Salam was driving near mile two on the Southern Highway when he lost control of his Toyota pick-up, which then turned over. Both Salam and his passenger, Police Corporal A. […]
A traffic mishap on the Northern Highway has claimed two lives. Police report that around 6:15 Wednesday evening, Swiss National, fifty-eight year old Benedict Steiger was heading north in a Toyota Hilux pick-up when he lost control of the vehicle and overturned near mile nineteen. Steiger and his passenger, forty-one year old Salvadoran, Maria Cruz, […]
Meanwhile, police are investigating another tragedy tonight which claimed the life of a child, this time, in Blue Creek Village, Orange Walk. Twenty-one month old Nathan Bergen was reportedly playing in the family’s yard at around 8:30 on Monday morning when he was run over by a pick-up truck driven by his father, thirty-one year […]
A Novelo’s bus driver has been charged in connection with a road accident last week in which two people died. Forty-two year old Daniel Archer has been charged with two counts of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, and negligent grievous harm. Twenty-three year old Benedicto Cal, who was travelling in the bus, […]
Two cyclists are dead tonight after they were knocked down in separate traffic incidents in Belize City. The first tragedy occurred at the Vernon Street and Magazine Road junction on Friday afternoon and claimed the life of forty-two year old security guard, Nicholas Lewis. Nineteen year old Fabiola Mendez told police that at around 3 […]
Two people are dead as poor weather conditions, heavy vehicles, and high beams proved to be the perfect combination for tragedy on the Western Highway. Sometime around 6:45 Wednesday evening, forty-two year old Daniel Archer was driving a Novelo’s bus from Belmopan to Belize City, when as he reached between miles thirty-three and thirty-four, heavy […]
In other police news, a bus driver has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal traffic accident last Friday. Fifty-seven year old Randolph Coleman will face charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Coleman was driving a bus on the Stann Creek Valley […]
A traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway over the weekend has claimed the life of a Hope Creek villager. According to the cops, around 4:00 p.m. on Friday, twenty-nine year old Jose Amilcar Garcia was riding his bike near mile eight and a half when he was run over by a bus. The driver, fifty-seven […]
A child was killed Thursday evening after being hit by a car on the Western Highway. According to police, eight year old Alton Robert Goff was attempting to cross the road between miles two and three, when he was knocked down by a pickup truck. The driver of the pickup, Gail Martinez, told police that […]
A farmer from the Orange Walk District is dead tonight, the victim of a traffic accident. According to police, around 1:30 on Wednesday, sixty-eight year old Miguel Blair, a resident of Tower Hill, was riding his bicycle near mile fifty-three on the Northern Highway when he was knocked down by a pick-up truck. Blair sustained […]
Finally, in news just in we are informed from San Pedro Town that a man there has been killed after he was run over by dump truck. The incident occurred in front of Harmouch Center around 6:30 this evening.
Tonight, family and friends of a teenager from Cayo are mourning his death after a fatal hit and run accident. Eighteen year old Glen Contreras was riding his bicycle on the side of the road near Camalote village on Thursday night when a dark coloured pickup with a wooden pan and a broken windshield, knocked […]
A freak accident on the Hummingbird Highway has claimed the life of a Dangriga man. Fifty-five year old Ruben Rosado was killed when a parked vehicle rolled backwards down a hill and ran him over. Rosado was a passenger in a Ford pickup which was towing another vehicle down the Hummingbird toward Dangriga. According to […]
Almost one month after twenty-three year old Tanya Smart was left in a coma following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway; tonight we regret to report that she has died. Smart succumbed to her injuries over the weekend while undergoing treatment in Merida. On September eighth, Smart was travelling home to Lord’s Bank Village […]
Meanwhile, another Belize City mother is at her daughter’s bedside at the K.H.M.H. willing her to live. A single vehicle traffic accident on the Northern Highway in the early morning hours of Sunday has left a young woman in critical condition, but her family still has hope for her recovery. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has […]
A third accident victim has died of injuries suffered in a traffic mishap on Tuesday night on the Northern Highway. Twenty-two year old Vernancio Martinez, driver of the tractor which was hit by a gas truck, died Wednesday evening at the K.H.M.H. Meanwhile, the driver of the truck, forty-eight year old Elijo Tun of San […]
A freak accident on the Northern Highway has left two men dead and several others injured. Police say around 7:35 Tuesday night, a tractor towing a trailer filled with logs and five workmen sitting on top was heading towards Guinea Grass Village. As the tractor reached between miles forty-one and forty-two, it was struck by […]
A hit and run over the weekend has left an Orange Walk woman dead and police searching for the driver who killed her. Around 8:30 Sunday night the woman, identified as Maria Garcia, was walking down the Otro Benque Road during a heavy rainstorm when she was knocked down by a passing vehicle. That vehicle, […]
In the movies, a traffic accident involving a prison detail is usually part of an elaborate escape plan. But in real life, things play out a little differently. Around midday today, a work gang of Minimum Security prisoners accompanied by two guards left Gardenia Village in their Ford Ranger with a trailer in tow to […]
A traffic accident in Belize City has left one man dead and three injured. Twenty-two year old Marvin Serrano of Wilson Street was killed on Friday night when around 11:30 he lost control of his vehicle after driving too fast over a pedestrian crossing on Coney Drive. Serrano’s Ford Tempo overturned and he was pronounced […]
Traffic on the Northern Highway was bottlenecked at the second roundabout after a midday accident left two Belize City drivers shaken but unhurt. According to one eyewitness, there was little that Randolph Ramirez, the driver of the tour bus, could have done to avoid the collision. Marlon Longsworth, Eyewitness “As I mi di come out […]
One woman is dead and three others have been injured after a vehicle carrying a family of Salvadoran tourists turned over on the Western Highway. According to Hattieville police, around 12:30 this afternoon, fifty-one year old Fernando Pacheco and his family were travelling towards Belmopan when their Land Rover Discovery flipped several times on a […]
Shortly after two this afternoon, a tour bus and a car, travelling in opposite directions, collided around mile twenty on the Western Highway. Modesto Lizarraga, the driver of the Novelos bus, says he was transporting a number of tourists to Belize City, but as he reached a curve he saw a car heading towards him. […]
