Shortly before five this evening, a motorcyclist was seriously injured in a traffic accident that occurred at the corner of Southside Canal and South Street in Belize City. According to eyewitnesses, the young man, who was seen with a beer bottle in hand, was travelling at high speed and as he drove past a stop […]
A twenty-three year old Belizean mechanic has been arrested after knocking down and killing a man from Ladyville. According to police, Shem Hower was driving a Ford Bronco from Sand Hill to Belize City at three, Saturday morning and as he reached mile nine and three quarters on the Northern Highway, he lost control of […]
A Belizean tour guide and farmer are dead after a car and a horse driven cart collided in the Corozal District. The accident happened on a dirt road, a half-mile off the Northern Highway in Santa Clara Village. While reports at this time are still sketchy, police say sometime between five thirty and six thirty […]
In crime news a forty-eight year old farmer from Biscayne Village is the latest Belizean to die on the nation’s highways. Police report that Gilbert Lamb was found around ten thirty Saturday night lying in a pool of blood near mile twenty-two and a half on the Northern Road. He was pronounced dead on arrival […]
It was supposed to have been a night out on the town for a group of young people… but a combination of too much partying and perhaps a driver’s error ended in tragedy for the Bonilla family over the weekend. Around eight-thirty on Friday night, nineteen-year old Carlos Bonilla, accompanied by five other people, was […]
Another fatal accident, this time on the Western Highway, has claimed the life of a teenage girl. As we reported on Friday’s newscast, two children were knocked down as they rode on a single bicycle in the village of Camalote around four thirty Friday evening. Fifteen year old Nadine Casey was pronounced dead on arrival […]
And in news just in, we have received reports of a traffic accident in Camalote Village in the Cayo District. A vehicle travelling on the Western Highway apparently ran into two teenagers walking along the road. The girl has died and the boy was injured and is now at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.
Three people escaped serious injuries in two separate mid afternoon traffic accidents today on the same portion of the Western Highway. A News Five crew returning from an assignment in Cayo, found police at mile ten, trying to get all the facts straight. According to Sergeant Luis Castellanos, the first accident happened shortly after two […]
It was a rough weekend for Belizean motorists as three men are dead as the result of separate traffic accidents. This morning twenty-four year old Ronnel Bucknor, a mechanic at Bowen and Bowen workshop, had just been given personal time off from work and was traveling up the Northern Highway around six thirty. According to […]
A Saturday night outing in the Cayo District has ended in tragedy for four friends in the Cayo District. According to San Ignacio police, at about seven they were called out to one and a half miles on the Bullet Tree Road. There they saw a black Toyota pick up truck overturn. Inside the vehicle […]
After returning from the accident scene on the Bullet Tree Road, Cayo police once again found themselves back on familiar territory the following night. This time fortunately no one died, but all six individuals on board a pick up truck received minor injuries. According to police shortly before nine on Sunday they were called out […]
A van loaded with fifteen people overturned on the Western Highway Sunday evening leaving one man dead and two in the hospital. Forty six year old Pan Li Chi Hui died on the spot when a van in which he was a passenger overturned near mile twenty eight on the way from Belize City to […]
A night out in the Orange Walk District has ended in tragedy for a twenty-three year old laborer of August Pine Ridge Village. According to police reports Omar Ku was riding his bike towards his village in the Orange Walk District shortly after one Saturday morning, when upon reaching the village entrance, a pickup truck […]
Another Orange Walk man, thirty-three year old Vincent Crawford, has been charged in connection with a fatal traffic accident on the Northern Highway on Sunday. Crawford has been charged with theft and manslaughter following the death of eighteen year old Melissa Sutherland. According to twenty-four year old Frank Dawson, he and three other people were […]
In other police news, a twenty-one-year-old Cave’s Branch resident has been charged in connection with a fatal traffic accident on Friday night in Belmopan. Windell Middleton was killed instantly when a vehicle driven by Darren Reymundo crashed into him head on. According to police, Middleton’s body was found in a ditch on Constitution Drive. Reymundo […]
A Belize City man was killed on Monday afternoon on the Coastal Road when the truck he was driving overturned. According to police, twenty three year old Alfonso Avila was transporting diesel to the Citrus Company of Belize around three thirty yesterday afternoon, when upon reaching a curve at mile thirty on the Coastal Road, […]
This weekend the Western Highway continued to uphold its reputation for traffic fatalities as a hit and run has left one man dead. Forty five year old Lincoln Hyde of Cotton Tree Village was pronounced dead on arrival at San Ignacio Hospital after he was knocked down sometime after midnight on Saturday morning near mile […]
The Western Highway was a deadly place for road users this week. Fifty-two year old Orlando Sosa of Belmopan is the third victim of a traffic fatality on that road in as many days. According to police, Sosa was attempting to cross the highway in Roaring Creek Village around seven thirty Thursday night when he […]
The Mennonite farmer whose vehicle knocked down and killed an eight year old girl in Blackman Eddy Village on Tuesday evening has been charged with a number of traffic related offenses. Forty- seven year old Otto Reimer now faces charges of driving without due care and attention, manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless […]
A Belize City man was killed this afternoon when the vehicle he had hitched a ride in, overturned on the Western Highway. Tony Enriquez was riding in the back of this pickup truck that was heading west towards Belmopan when he was apparently flung to his death. Lawrence Cayetano, driver of the vehicle, told police […]
An eight-year-old girl suffered the same fate on Tuesday evening further up the same highway. Forty seven year old Otto Reimer of Spanish Lookout told police he was driving his pickup truck through Unitedville Village around four fifteen Tuesday evening, when one of two children on bicycles, rode across the highway in front of him. […]
Belize’s streets and highways were once again the scene of death and destruction over the weekend as two were killed and several injured in road accidents. On Sunday night a collision between a motorcycle and a bicycle at the Cinderella Plaza junction claimed the life of a thirty year old woman. According to police at […]
Another motorcycle accident, this time on the Western Highway just outside Benque Viejo, has left a Cayo man hospitalized. Twenty year old Marlon Tillett was reportedly driving his motorcycle towards San Ignacio when he collided with a cow between miles seventy one and seventy two. When police arrived on the scene around one fifteen Sunday […]
Corozal police meanwhile are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl in Progresso Village on Saturday. Thirty year old Herman Villas told police he was driving through the village around four o’ clock, Saturday afternoon when he accidentally ran over Cruzita Guerra. The little girl was dead on arrival at the Corozal hospital. Villas has […]
The stretch of the Northern Highway between the Haulover Bridge and airport cutoff is a picturesque route which winds its way along a narrow ribbon of land between the blue Caribbean Sea and the greenish brown Belize River. But on Saturday morning the primary color on this vital road was red, as a bloody head […]
