7 Persons Dead in Horrific Road Traffic Accident

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It has been a deadly twenty-four hours on the country’s major thoroughfares where three separate road traffic accidents have claimed as many as nine lives. Seven persons are confirmed dead as a result of the horrendous traffic accident on Wednesday afternoon along the George Price Highway, near Hattieville. Lourdes Wade was driving a red Chevy Sports Utility Vehicle, returning to Belmopan after having attended the coast guard passing ceremony with Mayra Alcoser and Edwardo Wade when she collided head-on into a white passenger van. The three persons died on the scene. The driver of the van Errol Belisle and two American tourists, Jacqueline Abad and Sara Armijo, also perished at the scene. A third tourist, Adrian Armijo Jr. reportedly passed away while receiving treatment. It is one of the worst traffic accidents to be recorded. Hipolito Novelo reports.

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