An accident on the Western Highway this afternoon has claimed the life of a Novelo’s Bus Company employee and involved two of the company’s buses. Reports are that shortly after one p.m. a Novelo’s bus was traveling west but stopped between miles 7 and 8 so that ticket collector Samuel Hennis could get off and […]
A man is dead after being hit by a bus Saturday night on the Southern Highway. Police report a Z-Line Bus driven by Teopilo Chavarria was travelling from Independence to Punta Gorda around 8:30 p.m. Chavarria says between mile forty-six and forty-seven he noticed Miguel Angel Martinez Nuñez, riding on the right hand side of […]
A man is dead after a fatal traffic accident in Corozal Town yesterday morning. Seventy-one year old Gregorio Magaña of Ranchito Village was riding his bicycle around ten thirty when he was allegedly knocked down by a 1998 Land Rover with Guatemala license plates. Police say it was driven at the time by thirty-two year […]
Two men are hospitalized following an accident on the Western Highway yesterday evening. Police say around three-thirty a construction worker from St. Matthews Village Jose Linares, who was accompanied by Jose Maldonado, was driving a pick-up truck towards Belmopan. Between miles ten and eleven he collided with a car which had no license plates which […]
A five year old little boy Akim Gladden lost his life yesterday afternoon when he came out of a city bus on Raccoon Street and was hit by a jeep. Gladden’s mother Christine Hamilton was accompanying her only child at the time of the accident. She told News Five what she remembered about yesterday’s terrifying […]
A truck collided with a bus last night on the Northern Highway and one man was injured. Police say around six thirty p.m. Tito Sib was driving a bus heading towards Ladyville when between miles three and four a truck driven by Frank Kerr heading in the opposite direction reportedly made a left turn and […]
An accident in Belize City has left two men injured. Police say at about six thirty this morning a security guard for Courts Belize Limited twenty-seven year old Carlos Williams reportedly took a Courts pickup truck for a ride without permission. While on Cork Street by the Memorial Park Williams lost control of the vehicle […]
Despite some concern that his death may not have been an accident, the police department’s pathologist said today that Orange Walk resident Ivan Cruz died of multiple head and neck injuries characteristic of a road traffic accident. Yesterday police reported that they were called to Guinea Grass Village early Sunday morning after the twenty-three year […]
One man is dead after a traffic accident between mile thirty-five and thirty-six on the Northern Highway. At about six thirty yesterday evening thirty year old Bernadino Najarro was driving towards Corozal when a cow obstructed his path. Najarro hit the cow, killing it. The vehicle overturned and twenty-eight year old Alselmo Herrera seated in […]
There is controversy surrounding the death of two B.D.F. soldiers allegedly killed when a car plowed into them over the weekend. According to the Belize Defence Force, the car, driven by Alexander Tillett, a mechanic of Camalote ran off the road, near the Warriehead Bridge hitting four of their soldiers, Corporal Valerio Shal, Private Bernard […]
It looked a lot worse than it really was, but twenty-four occupants of a bus on the Northern Highway still received a nasty scare as they neared the Haulover Bridge. The bus was traveling from Sarteneja to Belize City shortly before eight this morning. While taking the curve at mile six the front left tire […]
A fifteen year old bicyclist was killed on the spot Saturday when he was knocked down by a pickup truck on the Western Highway. Tommy Lee Banner of Hattieville was riding along with Antonio Banner and Frederick Gordon, heading west between mile fifteen and sixteen, when he was struck from behind by an Isuzu pickup […]
An arrest has been made in a fatal traffic accident over the weekend which killed a man on a bicycle and injured his companion. Police have charged a mechanic William Usher from San Antonio Road, Punta Gorda with manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct. Usher’s white van reportedly knocked down Juan Choc […]
A woman from Sittee River was killed and three others injured when a Jeep Cherokee crashed on the Stann Creek Valley Road this weekend. Police say they were called to the scene between miles two and three around four a.m. Saturday and found the vehicle on the side of the road extensively damaged. Twenty-two year […]
The Western Highway was a dangerous place for pedestrians over the weekend. Around four o’clock on Saturday morning police picked up the body of twenty-three year old Chema Alve Suarez between miles forty-two and forty-three on the Western Highway near Cotton Tree Village. He was apparently the victim of a hit and run accident. Police […]
In a follow up to a story we reported in yesterday’s newscast, police have identified the cyclist who was injured in an accident on the Bel-China Bridge as Roberto Orellano. Information is still sketchy, but it appears that the thirty-four year old Belize City resident was run over by the rear wheel of a mini-bus […]
A Belize City bicyclist was injured this afternoon when he was run over by a mini-bus. Reports are sketchy but the unidentified man apparently went down to the pavement after slipping on the deck of the Bel-China Bridge and the vehicle ran over his head. He is currently undergoing emergency treatment at the Karl Heusner […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway in Ladyville village last night has claimed the lives of two people. According to police reports, the crash took place shortly after seven o’clock last night. Twenty three year old Adolfo Medina had just made a cement delivery in Belize City and was returning home to Orange Walk […]
The Belize Defence Force Medial Officer, Dr. Peter Craig was injured in a freak accident in Ladyville this morning. According to Colonel Hugh Cain, the B.D.F.’s public relations officer, since Monday of this week, Dr. Craig was on an exercise with the helicopter unit of the British Forces Support Training Unit. The exercise, known as […]
A traffic accident last night in Santa Elena, Cayo has left one man dead. According to police reports the incident happened shortly after eight o’clock at the junction of the Western Highway and Carillo Puerto Avenue in the town. Thirty-two year old Peter Garcia told police that he was driving his truck towards San Ignacio, […]
In related news, while the Airport Fire Service provided much needed help in fighting the blaze, it did not come without cost. A second truck, which was on its way to the scene in Belize City never made it, having run off the road around mile six on the Northern Highway. Reports are that the […]
A traffic accident on Sunday night in Cristo Rey Village, Cayo, has left two boys dead. According to police reports, eleven year old Eduardo Montalvan and fourteen year old Jose Arnoldo Leonardo were riding a bicycle on the Cristo Rey/San Antonio Road when they were knocked down by a vehicle driven by twenty-three year old […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway on Wednesday night has claimed the life of a Belize City man. Forty six year old Bruce Shaw was knocked down and killed as he walked on the road between miles seven and eight, shortly after seven o’clock last night. According to police, the driver of the truck, […]
An early morning accident across the Mexican border has killed two and left seven others hospitalized in Chetumal. According to Corozal police, just shortly after one this morning, Chetumal time, a small car driven by twenty-one year old Hipolito Marin of Corozal town, was travelling on the main highway to Chetumal with three Mexican nationals. […]
A hit and run accident in Corozal on Thursday night has left one man dead and another behind bars. Twenty six year old Santos Gutierrez was knocked down and killed as he attempted to cross the Northern Highway at the junction of Buena Vista and Caledonia villages. Twenty six year old Alexander Pech of San […]
