A traffic accident on the Stann Creek Valley Road has left a B.D.F. soldier dead and three others injured. Thirty-nine year old Donald Flowers died after the Ford pickup he was riding in crashed into another vehicle and overturned Saturday near mile three and a half. Fellow occupants Arthur Hill, Melvin Smith and Charles Serrano […]
A mid-morning collision on the Northern Highway has left four people injured. Twenty year old Nolberto Meggs, Richard Dominguez also twenty, seventeen year old Roger Bradley and eight year old Megan Leslie were all admitted to the K.H.M.H. after their vehicle, attempting to overtake, collided with another heading in the opposite direction near mile eight. […]
A traffic accident in the Corozal District has claimed the life of a security guard. According to police, just after midnight on Sunday, Julio Catch was riding his bicycle through Xaibe Village when he was knocked down from behind. Motorists travelling on the highway transported Catch to the K.H.M.H. where he later died. Another driver […]
The driver of a truck that knocked down a lamppost, which fell on a woman and killed her, has been arrested by police. Israeli Chi of Ranchito Village in the Corozal District has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Elvira Eck of San […]
A woman has lost her life as the result of a freak traffic accident. According to reports on Love FM, Elvira Eck of San Narciso Village was waiting for a bus near mile seventy-two on the Northern Highway when a truck heading toward Corozal Town went out of control and struck a lamppost. The post […]
Traffic on the Northern Highway came to a standstill this afternoon after an accident near the Haulover Bridge blocked the road for approximately an hour. Details are still sketchy as to how the vehicles collided, but reports are that around 2:30 p.m., a crane and this small car crashed on the bridge. According to police, […]
Two people, one of them a young boy, are dead tonight as a result of an accident in the Mountain Pine Ridge on Sunday. According to police, around 4:40 p.m., a Toyota pickup being driven by Riaan Webb of San Ignacio overturned near the D’Silva Forest Station. There were other people in the truck, and […]
A father is dead, while a young mother and her child are in the hospital tonight after a tragic accident over the weekend. Although the cause of the accident is still being investigated, the stretch of road on the Northern Highway is no stranger to this kind of tragedy. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline […]
The reports of tragedy began to come in early and didn’t let up until mid afternoon. By newstime it was clear that at least six people were confirmed dead today of various causes, three in a single traffic accident…and that’s where we’ll begin our newscast. Six children in the Mennonite community of Spanish Lookout are […]
The hard curves and hurried driving on the Northern Highway between the airport and Haulover Bridge have claimed yet another victim. He is forty-two year old Alfonso Singh of Ladyville. Around 3:30 p.m., Singh, a resident of Vista del Mar, was on his way home when he lost control of his Ford Ranger pickup truck. […]
Nineteen-year-old Andrew Tzib is lucky to be alive following a traffic accident that left him in a coma. Around 9:30 on Monday night, Tzib, a resident of Ladyville, was walking near mile two and a half on the Northern Highway when he was knocked down by a passing vehicle. According to police, after the young […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway on Friday night has left a woman dead and her daughter hospitalised. According to police, around 6:30 p.m., thirty-five year old Shu Chuan-huang and her daughter, fifteen year old Jenny Huang, were travelling by motorcycle from Orange Walk heading in the direction of Corozal. But between miles fifty-eight […]
In Benque Viejo a taxi driver has been arrested in connection with the fatal knockdown of a pedestrian. On Sunday night around 9:30, thirty-one year old Miguel Medina was driving west on the Western Highway when about a quarter mile from the border he ran into a man staggering on the road. That man, fifty-three […]
A hit and run accident on Thursday has left one man dead and his teenage son in the hospital. Reports are that forty-year-old Abel Diaz and his sixteen year old son, Wilber, were walking on the Northern Highway towards their home in San Jose Village around 7:00 p.m. But when the two reached an area […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway in the evening hours of Tuesday has claimed the life of a young Belize City man. Reports are that twenty-six year old Wayne Westby was on his motorcycle driving towards Belize City when he crashed into a car between miles two and three on the Northern Highway. The […]
In other unfortunate news involving metal and asphalt, this afternoon, a teacher from King’s College lost his life. News 5 understands that the crash occurred around 2:00 on the old Maskall Road. Forty-one year old Robert Slusher had just left school and was heading to Belize City in his van, but when he got to […]
One person is dead and several have been left injured following a Saturday afternoon traffic accident on the Western Highway. The collision occurred shortly after 2:00 p.m. between a pickup truck and a Novelos bus travelling in opposite directions. Police report that as the vehicles reached between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine, near the Belize Zoo […]
If the Western Highway between the Zoo and Jaguar Paw is the nation’s most dangerous stretch of road, then the Northern Highway between the airport and Haulover runs a close second. Last night mile six was the scene of an accident that left one man dead and another tenuously clinging to life. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
Another early morning collision, this time between a parked dredge and a speeding skiff has left a San Pedro resort manager dead. According to police, thirty-two year old Logan Gentry, manager of El Pescador fishing resort, located three miles north of town, had been socialising at a local night spot with friends. Reports are that […]
An eight-year-old child, injured after a police vehicle ran him over, has been told by the cops to pay for the damages to the car. That’s the story being told tonight by a Belize City family living off Wagner’s Lane. Rahem Arnold was riding his bike home from his aunt’s house when he was knocked […]
Another accident, this time in the Orange Walk District, has claimed the life of a sixty-year-old man. Police say that Santos Dominguez, a farmer from the village of San Felipe, was killed on Sunday night after he fell out of a pickup truck. Dominguez’s nineteen year old daughter, Marienela, told authorities that she was driving […]
On Tuesday, a four-year-old child lost her life in a horse and cart accident in the Orange Walk District. According to police, around 7:30 Tuesday morning, four year old Elizabeth Harms and her seven year old brother were at home in Indian Creek Village playing on their buggy. But apparently, the brakes became unhinged causing […]
As if police down South didn’t have enough to keep them busy this weekend, on Saturday night a man was knocked down in a hit and run on the Southern Highway. Thirty-eight year old Sebastian Salam of Red Bank died in the K.H.M.H. Sunday morning after he was found severely injured, lying on the road […]
A Guatemalan woman has died as the result of a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Filbertha Madrid-Suchite was dead on arrival at Belmopan Hospital after the car in which she was riding went out of control on the curve near the Hector Silva Airstrip and crashed into an oncoming bus. The car belonged to […]
An Orange Walk resident has been charged in connection with a hit and run incident on Saturday. Twenty-six year old Mayola Escalante allegedly fled the scene, near the Mi Amor Hotel, where thirty-three year old Pedro Martinez was knocked down as he crossed the street. Martinez, a Salvadoran, was rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital […]
