The feeling of panic associated with a high speed blowout is something that no driver would care to experience twice, but there are a few things you can do to increase your chances of surviving, including making sure that everyone buckles their seat belt and the tires are in good shape. But sometimes even tires […]
A traffic accident in the south on Thursday night has left one man dead. The accident happened between miles six and seven on the Stann Creek Valley Road near the Shibel Gas Station around ten forty five last night. It involved a car and a motor cycle. The police say that Sherane Jex, who lives […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed the life of a thirty eight year old man. Police say that around two o’clock this morning they found an overturned red Toyota pickup truck between miles forty four and forty five on the Western Highway. The body of Lui Ming Yu, apparently the driver and […]
In other police news, a hit and run accident on the Northern Highway on Sunday night has claimed the life of a man. Thirty seven year old Elsworth Armstrong of Grace Bank Village was reportedly knocked down as he was walking on the road towards Maskall Village. When police visited the scene of the crime […]
As most party goers were on their way home from their favorite night-spot on the Barracks early Friday morning, they became witnesses to one of this holiday weekend’s most tragic accidents. Two people lost their lives in the accident, which happened in front of the Fiesta Inn. Shortly after two o’clock on Friday morning, thirty […]
While there are plans for a series of trail exercises to test the country’s Emergency Response capabilities, the scene on the Western Highway this afternoon was as real as it could get. A report monitored on LOVE FM indicates that Cayo businessman Kalim Habet, apparently lost control of the vehicle he was driving and overturned. […]
Stories of traffic accidents are nothing new to this newscast, and while this one in Belize City was fairly benign causing no physical injuries, it was responsible for some heavily injured pride. According to witnesses, Maria Isabel Gallegos was reversing her car out of a driveway when she just kept backing up, not stopping until […]
Belize’s highways were busy this long Easter weekend as packed up vehicles of every size, shape and age hit the road to vacation spots in all parts of the country. Unfortunately for some, the holiday travelling also brought tragedy. No less than a dozen people had to be hospitalized and at least one was killed […]
The litany of highway accidents was not limited to just vehicles moving on four wheels. During the Cross Country Cycle Race on Saturday morning a motorcycle carrying two officials was knocked off the road, seriously injuring one. According to passenger Rhett Reyes, the incident happened near the Three Flags complex in the village of Unitedville, […]
Three people lost their lives in two separate traffic accidents over the weekend. The first incident was reported shortly after eleven o’clock Friday night in the nation’s capital. According to Belmopan police, forty five year old Ramon Cante, a resident of Salvapan Village was knocked down by a truck as he walked on the Ring […]
For the second time in as many weeks a major catastrophe involving a butane gas delivery truck has been narrowly averted on the Northern Highway. Last week it was a truck belonging to Belize Western Energy Limited that skidded off the road and overturned, blocking traffic for hours. Today, the highway was again the scene […]
By the start of this morning’s rush hour the obstruction had been towed off the road but for the previous twelve hours the butane truck had blocked the Northern Highway. Traffic was backed up for as much as a half mile in each direction as authorities were fearful that a spark from a passing vehicle […]
A traffic accident on private property off the Northern Highway Wednesday night has claimed the life of one man. Police reports say Cornelus Fehr was driving a tractor on Nova Shrimp Farm between miles twelve and thirteen around 7:00pm when he lost control of the vehicle and it overturned into a ditch. Fehr was trapped […]
A holiday weekend excursion to Bacalar, Mexico has ended in horror for a number of Orange Walk residents. According to Corozal police, shortly after six Monday evening, a small yellow bus, belonging to Chells Bus Company of Corozal, was returning from the Chetumal border to Orange Walk Town. Traveling at the same time, in the […]
An early morning traffic accident on the Northern Highway near Caribe Farm has claimed the life of one man. Police reports say Twenty Nine year old Armandito Manzanilla was headed towards Corozal when upon reaching between miles thirty nine and forty, he lost control of the vehicle and causing it to overturn. According to Corozal […]
In news just in, four men nearly lost their lives this evening when two vehicles traveling in opposite directions collided at the Ladyville junction of the Northern Highway. While reports are sketchy at this time, people at the scene say they first heard the sound of tires screeching and then a loud crash. A brown […]
It was a close call for a number of parked cars on Eyre Street this afternoon but for one moving vehicle it was the end of the line. Reports are that a brown Ford Ranger pickup belonging to BIMCO and driven at the time by the company’s driver, was traveling at high speed down the […]
It couldn’t fit into yesterday’s crowded newscast, but an accident which fortunately did not prove lethal took place in spectacular fashion on Saturday afternoon in Belize City. This van was speeding down the newly paved Newtown Barracks toward downtown when it went out of control, smashed into a parked car and spun headlong into the […]
On Sunday morning five residents of Belize City were on their way to Hattieville in a pickup when they suffered a blowout in their left rear tire between miles four and five. The vehicle went out of control and suddenly veered off the road where it clipped a tree stump and flipped over, coming to […]
In a similar accident on Sunday afternoon on the Hummingbird Highway no less than eight of twelve occupants of a pickup truck were injured when a blowout sent their vehicle overturning and off the road. The driver of the 1997 Ford pickup was Pastor Luis Alberto Larrias of San Ignacio. The accident occurred while Larrias […]
The streets of Belize City are often described as dangerous…but the warning usually refers to muggers, druggers and gangsters…not drivers. Early this morning, however, one well known Belize City resident died behind the wheel. For the past fifteen years, forty-nine-year-old Lennox Munnings covered many miles on his bicycle cart as he rode around the city […]
In crime news the Northern Highway has claimed another victim in a traffic accident. Jacqueline Woods was on the scene immediately following her duties on last night’s newscast. Sixty three year old Bonifacio Jimenez, Sr; a resident of Succotz village in the Cayo District and a watchman for INDECO Enterprises lost his life late Thursday […]
It has been a long and frustrating investigation for police, who for almost a month now have been trying in vain to find the driver and vehicle that killed a fellow officer while he rode his bike down East Collet Canal. But it is not that the police haven’t been busy. in fact one man […]
In other traffic news a Honduran man has died after being knocked down by a car on the Northern Highway. 58-year-old Domingo Abrego of Tower Hill Village was crossing the highway between miles 51 and 52 on Sunday evening when he was struck by a vehicle driven by 33-year-old Alfred Dominguez of West Landivar in […]
