Greater than a yr after two males have been struck down by an ambulance and killed, police have charged the driving force with two counts of manslaughter by negligence and two counts of inflicting demise by careless conduct.
Police mentioned that the driving force of the ambulance, Josh Barrillas, had claimed that he didn’t discover the bike in entrance of him on the time of the incident that occurred in February 2023.
The victims, Aurelio Ayala, 41 and Joana Somoza, 21, have been trying to cross the Beaver Dam Bridge in Saint Matthew’s Village, an agricultural area, when Barrillas collided into the again of the bike.
The arrest and fees towards Barrillas come at a time when Belize is recording an alarming improve within the variety of highway site visitors accidents, with the authorities saying a number of of those accidents have been brought on by reckless or negligent drivers.
To this point this week, there have been three deadly accidents in southern and western Belize.
