A three-year-old girl was seriously hurt in a car accident last night. Around 6:00, 29-year-old Cecila Burns was driving her Nissan Frontier from Belize City enroute to Belmopan where at mile 48 she lost control of the vehicle and it flipped. Burns' 3-year-old daughter Cindy received serious injuries to her entire body. Also in the vehicle was 34-year-old Rosalie Westby whose legs were injured. 5-year-old Rene Burns was in the vehicle but he wasn't seriously hurt.
Meanwhile in southern Belize a hunter was knocked down last night. 46-year-old Harry Sabal told police that around 8:30 he was driving his pickup towards Dangriga when at mile 2 and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road he saw a man with a light on his head. Sabal says he swerved to avoid a collision but he was too late. The man he knocked down is Jorge Baldarez who is tonight listed as critical in the KHMH.
