These are not good times for Belize’s children. This morning saw yet another tragic death of a young one, this time in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. I visited the town earlier today and discovered that the same type of mishaps that plague the city are also occurring at the caye. Residents of Laguna Street in […]
While all of Belize focussed on the over 130 cyclists who pedaled furiously from Belize City to San Ignacio and back on Holy Saturday, this first Easter weekend of the new millennium will forever have a different meaning for three Belizean families. That is the number of people who died in three separate incidents on […]
An 18-month old baby has become the nation’s latest traffic victim. On Tuesday evening Marnilla Garcia, a 24-year-old mother of five was walking down the main road in Cayo’s Valley of Peace. Her children walked at her side on the right side of the road. From the opposite direction a red pickup drove towards them […]
In other news from the North, Orange Walk East Representative, Dave Burgos is recovering today from injuries suffered in a traffic accident on Saturday night. At around 8:15 he was driving south on the Northern Highway between Corozal and Orange Walk when around mile 58 he lost control of his government vehicle. He suffered a […]
13-year-old Jameel Torres remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial hospital after he was knocked down by a Novelo’s bus at the corner of Kraal and Fabers Road. Torres was on a bike along with a friend when the accident occurred. On Thursday, the bus driver, Alphine Jergenson, told News Five that he attempted to avoid […]
It’s a familiar script on Belizean roads and streets, the only variation being the climax of the final act. 13-year-old Jameel Torres appears to have escaped the grim reaper but tonight lies in a stable though guarded condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The teenager suffered head injuries and a deep cut to the […]
Belize City drivers are always complaining about how bad other drivers are. But today, we found out that accidents do happen even when there’s nobody at the wheel. Gilroy Pinnock “I saw it but I couldn’t do nothing. I couldn’t do nothing. I still wonder how I come out.” And everyone who saw this extraordinary […]
A Cuban living in San Ignacio was killed in a traffic accident on Saturday evening and a Belizean from Orange Walk has been charged. Reports are that 36 year old Alejandro Leon Guerra had slowed to go over a speed bump between miles 68 and 69 on the Western Highway, when a vehicle crashed into […]
He’s not the first and sadly, he won’t be the last teenager who’s had to be airlifted out of the country for medical attention. News Five was at the intersection of St. Thomas Street and Princess Margaret Drive on the night of October 27th when a car, carrying 16 year old Duane Cano and his […]
A woman from St. Matthew’s Village was killed in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Maria Irena Magana Lopez was riding her bike between miles 37 and 38 on Sunday evening, when she was struck by a pick-up truck. Karl Petzold told police he saw Lopez riding in the same direction, but as he […]
Two men are in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following an accident in the Stann Creek District on Monday. Haisam Diab of Belize City told police he was heading back to Belize City from Dangriga in a Dodge Ram around 10 o’clock when he approached a narrow, blind bridge between miles 34 and 35. He […]
In a weekend accident, a man from San Antonio, Orange Walk was killed when his vehicle overturned on the Progresso road on Sunday night. 40 year old Miguel Grajalez had left Progresso around 9:00pm and about four miles up the road his blue Toyota pickup ran off the road and flipped over. His body was […]
In another incident on Saturday night a man on a bicycle was hit first by one car and then run over by another. Linsford Rosado told police he was heading into Belize City from Belama Phase Two sometime before 10:30pm when Elias Perez, who was riding his bike in the same direction, suddenly cut in […]
Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident, which took place between mile 62 and 63 on the Western Highway on Wednesday. Initial investigations reveal that around 5:00 yesterday afternoon, 27 year old Daniel Estelle, a mechanic of two and a half miles Northern Highway was driving his van from Corozal to Belize City. Near San […]
He is one of Belize’s leading businessmen and today Barry Bowen and the three passengers in his vehicle are lucky to be alive. On Sunday, Bowen, who is a senator and Managing Director of Bowen and Bowen Limited was admitted to the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami after being flown from Belize to the United […]
In another accident this weekend a twenty-one year old woman was killed after the vehicle she was travelling in overturned on the Western Highway. Police report that shortly after six on Saturday morning a pickup truck carrying Lisa Perez and twenty-three year old Darrel Middleton suffered a blowout between miles seventeen and eighteen. The pick-up […]
A man on a bicycle was killed Monday on the Western Highway during a crash. However, 57 year old Martin Ortega wasn’t hit by a car or truck, but a motorcycle. Police say the collision occurred between miles eight and nine around 5:00pm. Ortega who lives at mile eight was heading west and trying to […]
This weekend two tractors collided, killing one of the drivers. According to the police, thirty-nine-year old Henry Bodden was driving a red Massey Ferguson tractor on his way home Sunday morning. Between miles eighteen and nineteen on the Stann Creek Valley Road, he crashed into a blue Ford Tractor. The tractor was driven by thirty-four-year […]
A Z-Line bus filled with passengers crashed early this morning on the Hummingbird Highway. The bus departed from Dangriga shortly after 6:00 and was heading towards Belmopan but as the vehicle approached mile forty-seven and a half, it almost crashed into the rear of a dump truck that was parked on the highway. The bus […]
A sixty-nine year old man from San Roman Village was killed after he was knocked down Friday afternoon in Orange Walk Town. Police say Thomas Villamil was walking on St. Peter’s Street when a vehicle driven by Arturo Escarraga hit the elderly man. Villamil was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. […]
This morning a tortilla shop owner got a real fright when a van hit his building. Fortunately no one was hurt, but the incident has the owner angry and he says speeding is a recurrent problem on the narrow Berkeley Street. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Anselmo Blanco was inside his tortilla shop when a white van […]
What could have been a major emergency when two buses collided and one wound up in the Belize River, somehow resulted in only minor injuries Saturday afternoon. The incident occurred shortly before three o’clock p.m. at mile eight and a half in front of the Brazilian Consulate. Witnesses told News Five a car coming from […]
A two-year-old died in a traffic accident on the Punta Gorda/San Antonio Road on Monday night. Police say a truck carrying cement and driven by Felipe Conrad Munoz of Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala collided with a van driven by William Vellar of Forest Home Village between miles three and four around seven p.m. Two-year-old Darrel […]
Police are still trying to determine who was at fault in an accident on Friday night between miles six and seven on the Northern Highway. One of the drivers received a broken leg. Reports are that thirty-year-old Stanley Banks of Euphrates Avenue was heading towards Ladyville when he collided into a truck driven by Philberto […]
For four days Kevin Coye fought for his life but this morning, doctors in Guatemala City pronounced the twenty-four year old dead. Coye had sustained severe head and body injuries after colliding with the back of a truck while on his motorcycle on New Year’s Eve. He slipped into a coma shortly after being admitted […]
