If you happened to be in the area of King Street and East Canal this morning, you would have seen a very strange sight. Apparently, this Toyota Four Runner and taxi collided at the busy junction just before 9:00 today. Reports are that the three passengers in the cab at the time sustained minor injuries. […]
Two people are dead tonight as a result of a traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway late Thursday evening. According to police reports, around 7:30 p.m., police went to an area near mile twenty-one where they found an overturned Gray Nissan with one passenger trapped inside and two others lying on the ground outside the […]
The Stann Creek Valley Road has once again been the scene of a fatal traffic accident. On Wednesday night sixty-four year old Phillip Benguche was killed when a car crashed into him as he stood on the roadside talking to a friend in a parked vehicle. Driver of the moving vehicle, twenty year old Clinton […]
Meanwhile, a Cayo teenager has succumbed to injuries sustained in a traffic mishap that occurred last Friday. Nineteen year old Gaylene Bahadur of Santa Elena died Wednesday at the K.H.M.H. She was one of five students of Mount Carmel High in Benque Viejo injured when their car ran head on to an oncoming pickup. According […]
A man from Willows Bank has been arrested in connection with a hit and run fatality on the Northern Highway. On Friday night police discovered the severely injured body of thirty-five year old Thomas Rhaburn off the side of the road near mile fifty, along with his crashed motorcycle. About a mile and a half […]
A forty-one year old bicyclist has died after being knocked down on the Western Highway. On Tuesday, Carlos Humberto Carcamo of La Democracia Village, was riding his bike between miles thirty-one and thirty-two when he was struck by a Toyota van. The vehicle’s driver has been detained as part of the police investigation.
Traffic accidents over the weekend on the Western Highway have left two people dead, one of them a twelve year old girl. According to police, the first accident occurred sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. Police say around 4:00 a.m. on Saturday they found the body of man lying face down in the road […]
The nation’s highways proved deadly this weekend after a series of traffic accidents claimed no less than three lives. According to police reports, around 3:45 on Friday afternoon, thirty-one year old Clifford Butler was driving on Amara Avenue when he knocked down a man riding a bicycle at the junction at Dean Street. Butler has […]
In other unfortunate news involving asphalt, tonight sixteen people are recovering from injuries sustained during a traffic accident on Sunday. According to police, just after 10:00, a red pick-up truck being driven at the time by Hermild Vasquez of Orange Walk Town collided head on with a small car. The truck was carrying ten people […]
This morning B.D.F. volunteer, eighteen-year-old Pablo Chub was laid to rest in the Toledo District. Chub, a resident of Emory Grove Village, died after being knocked down while riding his bicycle on New Road in Punta Gorda Town. Police have since identified a teacher of San Pedro Columbia Village as the hit and run driver. […]
Meanwhile, Punta Gorda police are looking for the driver who hit and killed a teenager on Wednesday. Reports are that eighteen year old Pablo Chun, a B.D.F. volunteer from Emory Grove, was found dead on side of New Road in Punta Gorda Town, with his bicycle lying nearby. Chub had cut wounds to his forehead […]
A traffic accident on the Southern Highway has claimed the life of a teenager. According to police, twenty-two year old Bruce Martinez was driving his Honda Civic near the intersection at the Southern Highway and the Stann Creek Valley Road when he lost control of the vehicle and ended up in a ditch. Martinez and […]
A motorcyclist is dead tonight after a traffic accident in the Toledo District. Police reports are that thirty year old Fidel Coc, a salesman from San Antonio Village, was driving his motorcycle around seven o’clock Tuesday night on the Southern Highway just outside of Punta Gorda, when he collided with a bus travelling in the […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed the life of an eleven-year-old boy and left eight others in hospital. According to police, eleven-year-old Clint Price was travelling with family members to Santa Elena just before midnight on Sunday, when the Nissan pickup he was travelling in rear ended another truck between miles fifty-seven […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has left a woman dead. According to police, thirty-nine year old Jason Guerrero, a music conductor of Belize City, was driving his Isuzu truck from Belize City towards Ladyville around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday. Reports are that Guerrero was between miles seven and eight, near Raul’s Rose Garden, […]
Toledo East Representative Mike Espat Sr. is tonight in serious condition after he sustained head and body injuries in a traffic accident on the Western Highway over the weekend. Espat has been admitted to the Belize Medical Associates in Belize City and we understand underwent surgery earlier today. According to police, Espat was travelling with […]
A man intent on saving his beloved pet from harm is tonight dead as a result of his efforts. Police reports are that around 7:30 on Friday night, thirty-four year old Godfrey Staine of mile nineteen on the Northern Highway was trying to catch his dog and chased him onto the highway. Unfortunately for Staine, […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a Chinese businessman from Belize City. Police say at around 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Shao Lui Deng, a businessman of Mahogany Street, was driving his blue minivan towards Corozal, but upon reaching the area between miles forty-three and forty-four lost control and overturned. […]
The plague of injuries and death involving public buses that afflicted the nation’s highways over the last year has not abated in 2002. Tonight two students from Ladyville are lucky to be alive after they were trapped between a moving bus and the metal pedestrian railing at Belize City’s Western Highway roundabout. News 5’s Jacqueline […]
A Cayo boy is dead after being knocked down by a truck. Eleven year old Aaron Williams of Camalote Village was killed after he ran across the Western Highway into the path of an oncoming vehicle and was run over. That vehicle, a Ford Ranger pickup truck, was driven by thirty-two year old Onan McLean […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has left one man dead and three others hospitalised. According to police, thirty-five year old Elvis Dawson of Gardenia Village was heading north when his white Ford pick-up collided head on with a black Caprice car being driven by Patrick Bryant of Belize City. Dawson died at the […]
A Toledo toddler is dead tonight as the result of a tragic accident. One and a half year old Larissa Mishler was crushed to death Tuesday morning near Blue Creek Village when a pickup truck backed over her. The vehicle, driven by a twenty-one year old U.S. National Laban Butikoffer, had been parked at the […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed two lives and left one man seriously injured. This morning a truck driven by Juan Castillo and carrying five passengers suffered a blowout around mile nineteen and flipped over. Dead on arrival at the K.H.M.H. were Alfredo Zelaya and Larry Armstrong, while fifty-two year old Alford […]
A three-year-old girl is dead as the result of a traffic mishap at the Baking Pot ferry in Cayo. Gianni Guerra was a passenger in a vehicle being driven by her father Elias Guerra and carrying her grandfather Juan Guerra Senior. The Guerra’s pickup truck was parked on the ferry, which had not yet left […]
If you travelled the nation’s highways this weekend and made it home safely, consider yourself one of the lucky ones. The Northern, Western and Southern Highways were the scenes of no less than five traffic accidents, in which six lives were lost. We begin in the north. According to police reports, around 7:30 on Sunday […]
