While the collision on Douglas Jones resulted in some inconvenience for area residents, yesterday’s accident at the Queen’s Square Market resulted in a needless death. Today William Black, the driver of the van, which hit a pickup and pinned a seventy year old woman to a larger truck, was charged. According to witnesses Salustia Durante […]
A traffic accident outside the Queen’s Square Market has left one of the vendors dead. According to police seventy year old Salustia Duran was standing on the canal side between a white pickup and a truck when a van being driven by forty-one year old William Black collided into the white pickup. The pickup slammed […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has left one man dead and five others injured. According to Orange Walk police twenty-five year old Rafael Campos died instantly when the green Ford Ranger he was driving toward Corozal Town collided between miles 57 and 58 with a white Mazda pickup truck travelling in the opposite […]
A police constable and his passenger are dead after their car collided into a pick-up truck yesterday morning just outside Orange Walk. According to reports thirty year old constable Artimio Perez and twenty-four year old Raquel Catzim were in Perez’s car heading to Orange Walk when they crashed into a pick-up truck driven by Sitero […]
A Maya/Island Air plane crash landed last Friday while trying to find the Blancaneaux airstrip. Two of the passengers were injured. American tourists John and Patricia Metz told News Five this morning that on Friday afternoon they boarded a Maya/Island Air plane at Gallon Jug intended to go to Blancaneaux Lodge in Mountain Pine Ridge, […]
Anyone who has viewed the wreckage would agree that it’s amazing that former Minister of Government, Eduardo “Dito” Juan and Martha Molino are alive after their pick-up collided into a dump truck yesterday. A third passenger, Leopold Palacio was not so fortunate and died on the spot. According to reports, around mile 22 on the […]
Former Minister of Government Eduardo “Dito” Juan was in an accident this morning on the Western Highway. One of his companions was killed. According to reports reaching News Five Juan was taking two of his workers Martha Molino and Leopold Palacio to deliver meat to Belize City in his Toyota pick-up. At mile twenty-two Juan […]
Because of all the confusion resulting in frequent accidents at the junction of North Front and Douglas Jones Streets, the traffic department has changed the stop signs from North Front Street to Douglas Jones, changing the right of way. However, the move, which was designed to ease the flow of traffic, did just the opposite […]
Two young men are dead after a holiday traffic accident in Orange Walk on Saturday. Twenty four year old Javier Castellanos and 3 passengers Delroy Cecil Caliz, twenty-two; Ricardo Alamilla seventeen and eighteen year old Ryan Casimiro were travelling on the San Estevan Road after five p.m. when something apparently went wrong with their Mazda […]
A man is dead after a traffic accident early this morning. Police reports at this time are that twenty-five year old Clarence Westby was driving his car from Orange Walk to Corozal. Between miles sixty-eight and sixty-nine on the Northern Highway he reportedly collided into a cane truck driven by Santos Reyes Jimenez who was […]
The enjoyment of long weekends almost always seem to be marred by tragic accidents. This Baron Bliss weekend was no exception. An eleven year old Corozal boy was killed Friday night when he was hit between miles eighty-four and eighty-five on the Northern Highway. According to police, around nine p.m. Ronald Gorman was driving a […]
A little girl is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being knocked down this afternoon by a sixteen year old driver. According to police reports at about twelve forty-five this afternoon Jody Burgess was driving a car with a California license plate along Mahogany Street heading towards the Government Administrative Complex. As Burgess reached […]
Separate traffic accidents over the weekend have left a man and a child dead and several others injured. According to Orange Walk police around two thirty Sunday morning, Idelmo Coyoc, Israel Coyoc and Marcos Gongora were walking on the Northern Highway towards Corozal Town. As they reached the El Paso Bar, a red Toyota car […]
There was yet another accident at a traffic round-a-bout which was intended to improve the flow of vehicles approaching the city. Two men Edward King and Michael Tesecum were taken to the K.H.M.H. after falling out of a pickup truck this morning around mile two. Police say around 9 o’clock Orthon Coleman was driving up […]
Following the second road accident in two days, forty-six year old Pedro Romero lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being knocked down around nine last night. Police reports are that Romero had just stepped off the center divider in front of Ramon’s Gas Station when he was knocked down by a vehicle going […]
In a follow-up to yesterday’s accident on the Western Highway, the driver of a dump truck has been charged with the death of a bicycle cart driver. Jason Staine has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, driving without due care and attention, and driving a motor vehicle belonging to a category for which he has […]
Shortly before four this evening a seventeen year old youth who had been riding a bicycle cart was killed on the Western Highway as he tried to avoid getting hit by a dump truck. According to Jorge Velasquez he and his brother-in-law, Noel Sanchez were delivering a refrigerator to eight miles when Sanchez took over […]
A B.D.F. Land Rover wound up upside down in a ditch this morning after a collision on the Northern Highway near the Biltmore Plaza. According to police Arved Kummerten was driving a rented Suzuki towards Belize City when he stopped to make a left turn in front of Lloyd Beat and Sons Architecture firm. The […]
For months now, drivers have been complaining about the intersection at the corner of Douglas Jones and North Front Streets, saying the area is plagued by a number of traffic hazards that range from speeding drivers to blind spots in the area. Today three people could have been seriously injured in an accident that occurred […]
A tourist is dead after a traffic accident on the Northern Highway Sunday afternoon. Police reports say that fifty-five year old Canadian Betran Knazan was driving a rented Suzuki Samuri towards Orange Walk. Between miles thirty-four and thirty-five he reportedly lost control of the vehicle and over-turned. Knazan was thrown from the Suzuki and suffered […]
A bicyclist received minor injuries after he was knocked down Thursday night in Belize City. According to police around six forty five, twenty-one year old Benito Swazo was riding his bike on Racecourse Street, when a brown car, travelling in the opposite direction, knocked the young man down. The driver did not stop to assist […]
Seventeen year old Wilword Banner lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a fractured upper jaw and scrapes to his face, chest and hands. The youth, who was riding his bicycle on the Boom Road to the Northern Highway to train for a school bike race, was knocked down around nine thirty, Sunday night. […]
A businessman has been charged in connection with an accident on the Burrell Boom Road which has left a student hospitalized. Police say around eight thirty Saturday night, seventeen year old Wilword Banner of Burrell Boom Village was riding his bicycle from the village to the Northern Highway. Two miles past the bridge, Banner was […]
A Budd’s bus travelling from Lord’s Bank filled with school children crashed into a lamp post about eight twenty this morning at mile three and a half on the Northern Highway. Fortunately only a few children received minor injuries and were treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital; the rest were taken to school by […]
A taxi driver was killed yesterday when a Zeta water truck collided with a bus on the Northern Highway and ran off the road around five p.m. Police say Mauricio Nazaria reported he was approaching the round-a-bout between miles one and two when he ran into a yellow passenger bus which was already in the […]
