Fatal Accident: Soldier Crashed Into Digi Truck

The Belize Defence Force lost a soldier yesterday evening around 4:30.

33-year-old Hipolito Sho was travelling on a motorcycle on the Southern Highway near Jacintoville when he collided into head on into a Digi pickup truck.

According to the police's investigation, the driver of the truck 31-year-old Jerry Nicholas was heading towards Punta Gorda Town when he saw the motorcycle coming towards him on the wrong side of the road. He honked his horn but the motorcycle continued along its path until it rammed into the left side of his truck. Sho was rushed to the PG Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

He was posted at Fairweather Camp in the Toledo District and had been in the BDF for 15yrs.