17 YEAR OLD COROZAL RESIDENT THE VICTIM OF A HIT AND RUN INCIDENT

Around 7 o'clock on Sunday evening, Corozal Police were called to a hit and run traffic accident at the entrance to Ranchito Village. There they saw a man, identified as seventeen year old Jerry Flowers lying on the right hand side of the road suffering from a large cut wound to the back of the head. Initial investigations revealed that sometime around 5:15p.m that same day, Flowers was walking on the right hand side of the road in a north bound direction when he was hit behind by a car traveling in the same direction. Flowers was transported to the Corozal Community Hospital and later taken to the KHMH for treatment where he succumbed to his injuries yesterday. In connection with the incident, today sixty two year old Carlos Chan of San Joaquin Village, Corozal - was charged with the crimes of Manslaughter by negligence, driving a motor vehicle without due care and attention, causing death by careless conduct, failure to report an accident and failure to stop and render aid. Chan was granted and met bail of $8,000. He is to reappear in court.