Riding in the open back of a pickup truck is a popular Belizean pastime, but on Friday it meant death for a Cayo man. Twenty-three year old Samuel Shish of Calla Creek Village was riding in the pan of a pickup belonging to Peter Margessam when, between mile sixty-nine and seventy on the Western Highway, […]
Police also figured prominently in this next story, but not in a particularly flattering way. Imagine spending the night at a family member’s home and in the wee hours of the morning you’re awakened by at telephone call that a wayward vehicle literally broke your house down. That is what happened to fifty-five year old […]
An automobile accident Friday morning on the Western Highway has left a police officer hospitalised. Corporal Rosita Vernon received facial injuries when the supercab pickup in which she was a passenger, overturned around 7:30 in the morning. According to police, the vehicle, driven by Sharette Yearwood, suffered a blowout while heading west at the mile […]
More details have emerged on a bizarre traffic accident at the Western Border, which resulted in ten injuries and the destruction of a building. It seems that around 4:00 Tuesday afternoon, a truck en route from Benque Viejo to the border, lost its brakes while descending a hill. Driver Cecilio Neal of Santa Elena, Cayo, […]
Late news from the Western border at Benque Viejo is that three people have been injured as the result of a truck crashing into the wooden building that houses the Border Management Agency. Details are sketchy at this time, but the accident apparently occurred around four this afternoon and the injured persons were inside the […]
The identity has been established of the man killed yesterday on the Western Highway. He is sixty-three year old Hugh Gillett of Albert Street West in Belize City. Gillett, employed as a watchman by Bowen and Bowen, died after he was hit by a truck while riding his bicycle near mile three on the Western […]
An unidentified bicycle rider is dead tonight after he was hit by a truck on the Western Highway. The accident happened around 11:30 this morning when the man, around sixty years old and of Creole descent, apparently swerved into the center of the road, near mile three and was hit by the F-350 truck belonging […]
The driver of the Northern Transport bus which overturned on the Northern Highway yesterday morning has been arrested. Thirty year old Charles Meggs has been charged with driving without due care and attention, two counts of negligent wounding, three counts of negligent grievous harm and failure to provide a blood specimen for analysis. Four of […]
A slow moving truck, two aggressive busses and a dangerous curve combined to send twenty-seven passengers to the hospital this morning. Around 6:30, the truck, with two busses behind it, was heading south between miles sixty-one and sixty-two on the Northern Highway. The first bus, belonging to Northern Transport, pulled out to pass and was […]
A Mexican resident of Ladyville was killed on Tuesday when he was hit by a car as the result of a three-car traffic mishap. Adolfo Gomez, a herbalist from Veracruz, was walking near the intersection of Poinsettia Street and Hecker Road and it turned out to be the wrong place at the wrong time. It […]
Earlier in the weekend a Canadian citizen was knocked down and killed in the same area of Corozal. Around ten o’clock on Saturday morning in Santa Rita Heights, fifty-seven year old Rene Rioux was riding his bicycle towards the Free Zone when the he was hit by a grey Mitsubishi also heading towards the zone. […]
Last night an accident on the Northern Highway, involving three vehicles, has left eleven people in need of medical attention. Around nine-thirty in the Santa Rita area of Corozal, a van heading north crossed lanes and crashed into the rear wheel of a truck heading south in the direction of Belize City. The intensity of […]
Any owner of a new vehicle knows it was bound to happen… but it still hurts just the same. One of those shiny new Mercedes Benz busses got mashed up this morning. The accident happened just before eight on the Western Highway when a Novelos Executive bus ran into the back of a trailer loaded […]
On a normal day our highways and the careless drivers who use them manage to combine for a fair share of traffic mishaps. Throw in an unforeseen obstruction and the situation is an invitation to disaster. Ann-Marie Williams reports on an incident this morning in which a man directing traffic around an overturned container truck […]
One death has resulted from the traffic accident that occurred on Sunday in which a white Toyota pickup flipped over with its sixteen occupants. Francisca Chacon fought for her life for two days in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital but today she succumbed to her head injuries. While her widowed husband Umberto has been released […]
A traffic accident that occurred on Sunday has landed at least fourteen people in the hospital. Pedro Cal and fifteen family members of Salvapan were returning from an outing near the Sibun River, when around mile thirty-three on the Western Highway, his white Toyota pick-up overturned after a blowout. Inside the cab were Cal, his […]
He was a permanent fixture at the soft drink giant for over thirty years, but a tragic automobile accident has cut short the life of Rene Lui, an employee of Bowen and Bowen. On Saturday morning the sixty-year old Lui, on an outing with five Cuban doctors, had just entered the property of the Gallon […]
Looking at the flipped over sports car, it’s hard to believe that its two occupants emerged with barely a scratch. The vehicle, driven by fourth form SJC student Alfonso Chicas with his brother, second former Israel in the passenger seat, went out of control shortly before eight this morning on Princess Margaret Drive near St. […]
A teenage boy was killed in an accident in the Corozal District on Friday night. Around 8:00, fifteen year old Luis Angel Portillo was riding his bicycle by the police station on the San Narciso Road when he collided with a moving vehicle. Octavio Ek was driving his tractor with two trailers loaded with sugar […]
A six year-old student of Wesley Infant School is under observation at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was knocked down by a truck in Belize City. Police say Monday evening Elvis Anderson of Louise Bevans Street in Port Loyola, stepped off a Novelo’s bus on Central American Boulevard in the vicinity of Jane […]
It was a weekend of carnage on the nation’s highways with no less than four people dead in accidents involving motor vehicles. The most recent occurred today at around seven forty-five A.M. in Belize City. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams arrived on the scene to find the victim’s body still lying in the street. Ann-Marie Williams […]
On Friday another man was killed by a motor vehicle, this time in Orange Walk. Sixty-five year old Guatemalan Ricardo Arriaga was knocked down around six-fifteen in the evening near mile forty-nine on the Northern Highway and was pronounced dead on arrival at Orange Walk Hospital. Twenty-eight year old Carlos Montalvo, the driver of the […]
A husband and wife are dead following a head-on collision on the Western Highway Sunday evening. Police say Howell Adolphus was driving a red Chrysler along with two other passengers: his wife, Verna Hutchinson and twenty-four year old Sherman Herrera. They were all on their way home to Teakettle Village, from a football game in […]
Two men were killed and another injured in a traffic accident that occurred Monday night on the Western Highway. The men were travelling between miles sixty-eight and sixty-nine in a Honda Civic around 7:00, when the driver lost control of the car, causing it to overturn. Peter Saldivar, believed to be the driver, died on […]
An early morning traffic accident has claimed the life of a truck driver on the Stann Creek Valley Road. David Sainsbury of Dangriga died around 2:00 a.m. when his truck ran into the back of another truck parked on the road. According to Dangriga police, Enrique Basto of San Felipe Village, was experiencing mechanical problems […]
