Bus Passenger Hit on Exiting

A woman is lucky to be alive tonight after she was knocked down while getting off a bus. It happened yesterday morning around 10:30. 17-year-old Charlene Pakeman had just gotten off a bus near the Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel on the Northern Highway.

But as she stepped off the bus, a red car attempting to overtake the bus, slammed into her. Pakeman received severe injuries and is hospitalized at the Medical Associates Hospital.

The driver of the car was 48-year-old Anthony Blair Sr. and he has been charged for negligent grievous harm and driving without due care and attention.