Dangriga Police are investigating a fatal road traffic accident that has left a seven year old boy dead. The child identified as Sheldon Lopez of Santa Martha Village was knocked down and killed yesterday around mile thirty four on the Hummingbird Highway. Glenroy Ferguson is the driver of the Mitsubishi that struck the young boy. Ferguson told police that while driving his pickup truck he saw the child running across the road but when the boy saw the vehicle he ran back, right into the path of the pickup.
Glenford Ferguson told authorities that he applied brakes and swerved to avoid hitting the child but it was too late. Seven year old Sheldon Lopez sustained serious head and body injuries. He was rushed to the Western Regional Hospital but died.
