Another accident, this time at the Pound Yard Bridge, has left one man injured. A Bronco and a bus collided in front of Pollo Rico. The driver, Salvadoran Guillermo Pacheco, was pinned in his car for some time, and finally taken to the hospital by ambulance.
A well-known diplomat has been injured in an automobile accident on the Western Highway. Clara Chavez, attaché at the Colombian Embassy, was driving near the Silva airstrip outside Belmopan when her four-wheel drive Suzuki Jimny went off the road and rolled over several times. Chavez, now at the KHMH, suffered a cut on her head, […]
A Belize City man lost his life in a motorcycle accident shortly after 10 this morning. Jason Hemsley, nineteen, an employee of Texaco Belize Ltd. lost control of a Honda 90 cc motorcycle he was riding on Newtown Barracks and slammed into the M.C.C. Grounds fence. The impact threw him off the cycle and as […]
It was the kind of scenario that everyone driving on the Western Highway at night dreads…and on Friday one woman was killed and three others critically injured when their vehicle ran into the back end of a semi-trailer. Thirty-two year old Tyrone Bennett remains in a coma at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after the […]
A man is dead after the vehicle he was travelling in overturned on the Northern Highway. According to Orange Walk police they received a report on Sunday morning about an accident on the Mamayal Curve between miles fifty-nine and sixty. Upon reaching the site, police saw a blue four-door car, which had overturned and landed […]
They say that lightning never strikes twice in the same place but that’s not true for traffic accidents. Mile seven on the Northern Highway was the scene of two major mishaps over the weekend, and while there was a lot of mangled metal, fortunately there were no serious injuries. The first crash apparently occurred on […]
Two persons are lucky to be alive after the vehicles they were traveling in collided on the Western Highway. The accident happened around ten-thirty Tuesday night. According to reports, forty-eight year old Inez Gomez was driving a freight truck from Belize City to Benque Viejo Del Carmen. When it reached in the vicinity of Central […]
Police have still not arrested anyone in the murder of multi millionaire heiress Therese Blake Ayuso, but report that they have been making progress with the case. Whatever new information they have gathered has not been disclosed to the press, fearing that such a move would jeopardize the investigation. The police did, however, make an […]
An 82-year old resident of Dangriga has died after being hit by a car on the Stann Creek Valley Road. Augustus Cayetano was riding his bicycle toward Dangriga Thursday evening when before reaching mile 3, he was struck by a gray Toyota. The driver, 25-year old Michael Ramirez, told police that Cayetano was riding across […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on what appeared to be an unfortunate traffic mishap in which a Belize City man lost his life. However, a News Five investigation has revealed that the official report of the incident on Dolphin Street told only one version of the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Linda Middleton says that contrary […]
The weekend was a bad one for both drivers and pedestrians. In Belize City, a man was knocked down and killed on Dolphin Street shortly after 7:00 on Sunday night. Gilbert Gibson reported to police that he was driving a truck on Dolphin Street towards a street leading to the Old City Council Compound. When […]
Two people also lost their lives in a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. A vehicle driven by Armando Moh ran into the back of a Novelos bus, which had stopped to discharge passengers near Carmelita Village. Killed as a result of the crash were passengers in the car 1-year old Adelita Moh and 50-year […]
If you drive the Western Highway on any given morning you can’t help but notice them: Dozens of cyclists training hard for upcoming races or just to stay in shape. Today, however, there are 3 budding riders who won’t be pedaling anytime soon. Levi Gentle Heusner, Stephen Heusner and Jose “Cheto” Encalada were out doing […]
When we reported the incident on yesterday’s newscast it came across as one of many tragic events that wind their way from the streets to the files of the police department. But when I visited the scene this morning I discovered that the death of a baby boy in Belize City was anything but routine… […]
One possible benefit of the rise in fuel prices is that if people drive less there may be fewer traffic fatalities. This weekend was a particularly bloody one with three people dying in separate accidents. On Friday night a bicyclist, Elmer Eck of Chan Chen village, was killed when he was knocked down on the […]
On Friday, we reported that Prince William, the heir to the British throne, is in Belize learning the art of jungle warfare with the Welsh Guards Regiment. Today, we learned that thirteen of the soldiers training along with the future king were injured after the truck they were traveling in collapsed under a track. According […]
A twenty-three year old San Ignacio man is lucky to be alive after the vehicle he was traveling in slipped off the town’s temporary wooden bridge and overturned. According to witnesses, around 2:30 Sunday afternoon, Alejandro Rodriguez was making his way alone across the low wooden span when the accident occurred. It is not known […]
The weekend was also a dangerous one for people on the road as two men were killed in separate traffic accidents. On Friday Reagan Montero died in a traffic accident on mile four on the Southern Highway. According to police, Montero was a passenger in a Toyota Pickup driven by Deon Dawson. The two were […]
A bus and pickup collided today on the Western Highway at Georgeville. Reports are that the four by four pickup was going too fats and lost control when it hit the speed bump in the middle of the village. The pickup rammed head on into the bus. No one on the bus was injured but […]
A woman is dead after she was knocked down on the Punta Gorda, San Antonio Road Sunday night. Just after 7:00 last night, 37-year old Michelle Spencer Yates, a resident of Emory Grove, got off a Z-Line bus and attempted to cross the road to go home. However, News Five understands that Spencer Yates was […]
The end result looked comical, but a traffic accident that occurred on Saturday morning was no laughing matter for those involved. Around 11:15 on Central America Boulevard a Ford Explorer driven by 30-year old Evan Reneau collided into the rear of a station wagon driven by 20-year old Jose Gallego. The wagon then knocked down […]
Belmopan Police are on the lookout tonight for the vehicle that knocked down a man on the Western Highway on Tuesday night and didn’t bother to stop. According to 42-year old Francis Young, a labourer of Tea Kettle Village, he was walking along the highway around 8 o’clock Tuesday night when a vehicle, which he […]
A Sunday afternoon outing has ended in tragedy for 4 students of Libertad Village. The young men were all traveling south in a car on the Northern Highway near the entrance to Corozal town when the vehicle crashed into an oncoming truck. It is not clear exactly what caused the crash, but as the driver […]
Three residents of Hattieville are still receiving care at the KHMH tonight after a traffic accident early this morning on the Western Highway. Police say around 7:30 this morning, Charles Belisle was driving his Ford Ranger from Hattieville to Belize City between miles 9 and 10 when the truck had a blowout and overturned on […]
This afternoon, two Belize City men were involved in a spectacular traffic accident but somehow managed to walk away uninjured. According the driver, Jaime Castellanos, the van was heading from Belize City towards Belmopan sometime after eleven this morning. When he reached the curve at mile 2, a trailer carrying a load of steel was […]
