The weekend's other death was reported in the west where a man lost his life in a traffic accident. It happened in Belmopan on Saturday night at 11:00 where a Ford pickup traveling at high speed on Constitution Drive rammed into a cement pole and flipped multiple times across the Blue Moon roundabout. The driver - 30 year old San Ignacio resident - Esvin Damian was left hanging out the vehicle - he died from his injuries.
An eyewitness told PLUS TV that he had been traveling at high speed.
ACP Hilberto Romero, Regional Commander, Eastern Division
"On Friday 16th September, 2023, police responded to reports of a fatal road traffic accident by the Blue Moon area in Belmopan. Upon arrival they saw a 150 pickup overturned and they saw the lifeless body of Esvin Damian, thirty years, inside the vehicle. Information was the deceased was driving that vehicle when he lost control and succumbed to his injuries."
Eyewitness
"I was coming out of Belmopan by the roundabout here and as I cross the speed bump this black F-150 over there, he came and passed right beside me, he knocked out this first stone, he flipped over the other side and he flipped over way on the other side of the roundabout. He came in a ball of speed. I stepped out my vehicle to render assistance, but luckily the police was right near to control the scene, they were like second behind."
Reporter
"How you feel, because you could have been a part of this accident?"
Eyewitness
"This man literally passed inches next to me, if he was anymore close I would have been clipped and be a part of this whole scenario right here. It is a near death experience, but thank god I am alive."
Jules Vasquez
"Report suggest that alcohol may have been involved."
ACP Hilberto Romero
"That is the information we are getting, but we are awaiting for the post-mortem results and then tests will be done."
Jules Vasquez
"Had he been stopped at a checkpoint shortly before the fatal?"
ACP Hilberto Romero
"I cannot say at this time. We are looking into that whether he came in contact with any police before that accident happened."
Damian was driving alone in the truck.
