Shortly before 4:00 on Thursday evening, residents of Princess Margaret Drive heard a loud noise and then the screeching of tires. By the time they looked outside, they discovered an overturned Nissan Xterra lying in the middle of the road. The vehicle, driven by Doctor Morali Rudraja, went out of control and flipped several times […]
The body of a man found lying on the Northern Highway has been classified as a victim of hit and run. Police say that on Monday officers were called to the village of San Jose where they saw a Hispanic man lying on the road with multiple head and body injuries. The man, identified as […]
A seventeen year old resident of Blackman Eddy Village is dead after being knocked down by a vehicle on the Western Highway. Andrew Ireland was riding his bicycle home from Ontario Village at around 7:00 on Wednesday night when, near mile sixty, he was struck by a Jeep Cherokee being driven by Richard Westby of […]
An eleven-year-old girl and her cousin died in a traffic accident on the Western Highway over the weekend. Thirty-five year old Dionicio Canto and his cousin, eleven-year-old Keyla Canto, were thrown from the vehicle they were travelling in and died on the highway. Police reports are that the Cantos had been travelling to Belize City […]
A seventy-one year old man lost his life in a traffic accident on the Western Highway Friday evening. Police say Clinton Palacio, a retiree of Camalote Village, was walking along the side of the road at mile fifty when at around 6:45 he was knocked down by Ryan Rhaburn of Teakettle Village driving west in […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway over the weekend has left a number of people injured. According to forty-five year old Mario Sabido, he was driving his Toyota 4-Runner towards Belmopan around 5:30 Saturday evening when he noticed a car coming from the opposite direction, apparently out of control. Sabido says he tried to […]
Four vehicles were involved in an accident that has left one man hospitalised in the K.H.M.H. The accident took place around 10:00 this morning near Nargusta Street on Central American Boulevard. According to police this dump truck, driven by twenty-four year old Arthur Emmanuel Stevens, a labourer of Lords Bank Village, crashed first into a […]
Two people were killed by motorists over the holiday weekend in separate incidents in the Belize and Stann Creek districts. On independence eve on the road between Independence Village and the Big Creek port, seventeen year old student Christopher Charlie was hit by a pickup truck being driven by thirty-two year old James Chinchilla. Charlie […]
One would think that after spending the last week reporting on the death of over five thousand innocent people in New York and Washington, the media would have learned to deal with grief. Not so. This morning we received the news that a young Belizean businessman with close ties to a number of local media […]
A pair of traffic accidents over the holiday weekend has left two men dead. Police say that around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday Nick Chan, nineteen, of Palmetto Street in Orange Walk, was driving his car on the Northern Highway when he collided into the rear of a parked bus on the side of the road […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed two lives. thirty-four year old Floyd Moro and seventy-three year old Daria Polanco, both of San Ignacio, died from severe head and body injuries following a head on collision near mile twenty. Moro and Polanco had been travelling east towards Belize City when they collided with […]
A Belize City man is dead after he was knocked off his bicycle by a truck. Forty-seven year old Harold Meggs of Belama Phase III was riding his bike against traffic on the Northern Highway near the Coral Grove Gas Station Saturday afternoon when he was hit by a Crystal Water truck. According to the […]
Last week we reported on a road mishap in which a pickup truck packed with fifteen passengers went out of control near Bermudian Landing. Today we regret to inform viewers that two of those passengers have died of their injuries. They are twenty-eight year old Lizalou Dominguez and thirty-six year old Raymond Myvett. A third […]
A fifty-year-old mechanic of Cotton Tree Village lost his life in a freak accident shortly before noon today. Police say Clive Humes was repairing some seals under a piece of hydraulic machinery, when it appeared that he pulled a wrong lever. This caused the vehicle’s bucket to activate and it moved, crushing him to death […]
Two serious road mishaps, one of them fatal, marred an otherwise safe weekend on the nation’s roads. On Friday night Alfonso Garcia of Big Falls, Toledo was knocked from his bicycle while riding on the Southern Highway between miles eighteen and nineteen. He was rushed to the Punta Gorda Hospital and later transferred to the […]
A traffic accident on Friday night has claimed the life of twenty-three year old Francisco Aldana, a labourer of Calcutta Village, Corozal District. Police say eighteen year old Ivan Castillo, son of Minister of Labour, Local Government and Sugar Industries, Valdemar Castillo, reported that around 9:30 he was on his way to Corozal town in […]
Two people are dead and two more have been injured in separate traffic accidents on Saturday night. In Orange Walk, Juan Blanco Junior was killed after falling out of the back of a pickup truck as it drove down Riverside Street. According to the driver, Wilhem Lodge, Blanco was drunk and sitting on the edge […]
Charges have been brought against the driver of a car that crashed early Monday morning the Northern Highway, killing two of his own passengers. Noel Gonzalez has been arraigned on two counts each of manslaughter by negligence, and causing death by careless conduct as well as four counts of negligent harm and one of driving […]
Two people lost their lives in an early morning traffic accident on Sunday. They are twenty-seven year old Roberto Herrera and sixteen year old Jose Luis Flores, both of Trial Farm, Orange Walk. Two other passengers in the vehicle, Danny Ponce, eighteen and Ceasar Martinez, twenty, have been treated and released. Police say the car […]
Twenty-two year old Honduran Rene Montero, wasn’t as fortunate as the Alvarado family as he died of head and body injuries suffered when he collided with a truck while riding his bicycle. Police say around eight forty-five on Saturday morning, twenty-eight year old Edgar Ayala, was driving his truck through the intersection of Queen Victoria […]
A bicyclist was knocked down by a pickup truck and killed as he pedalled down the Northern Highway on Sunday night. Fifty-six year old Mariano Herrera, a Mexican residing in San Jose Village, was struck down around 6:30 p.m. between miles sixty-three and sixty-four. He was hit from behind by a green pickup truck driven […]
She was returning from school with two fellow students when a car came hurtling off the road in their direction. While her friends managed to run, thirteen year old Maria del Carmen Sosa, frozen with fright, could not. The Ladyville resident was struck down and later died at the K.H.M.H. The driver of the car, […]
A hit and run accident in Belize City has left a family mourning the death of their five year old girl. Shortly after noon on Saturday, Keely Oshon was killed on impact when a green Toyota pick-up ran her over as she tried to cross Barrack Road. Keely, her mother and brother, all Hattieville residents, […]
A two-car collision on the Northern Highway this morning has left two vehicles destroyed, but no one seriously injured. Sixty-two year old Robert Tillett was driving his truck from the airport towards Belize City around 8:30 when he collided with a Nissan car driven by Assistant Inspector of Police Miguel Segura. According to James Herrera, […]
Two Hondurans are dead after the car in which they were riding, ran off the Western Highway Sunday night. Twenty-seven year old Nerry Noa Rivero Lopez and thirty-six year old Manuel Avarenega were reportedly killed on impact after their car crashed into a ditch between mile twenty-four and twenty-five around 11:15 p.m. Two other passengers […]
