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Driver on Rampage on Central American Blvd. Injures Four
Tue, November 21, 2017
And while those fatal accidents happened on a visibly dangerous bridge, there's no easy explanation for a traffic accident in Belize City on Saturday morning. It was caused by a driver who - it seems - just went crazy on a very busy road and started to plow through traffic at the height of the morning rush at around 10:30 AM.

The drivers wild rampage started at the Hand Roundabout - which is the one you meet who coming off the George Price Highway.

58-year-old Lincoln Webster was halfway across the roundabout in his Toyota Corolla when 65-year-old Phillip Neal crashed into his front end and raced off. Sahar Vasquez tells us what happened next:

Sahar Vasquez reporting
56-year-old Principal Crusita Castillo was driving her Honda CRV towards Belcan Bridge, when, at the Banak Street Junction, 65-year-old Phillip Neal's out of control van rear-ended her. He was speeding and the force of the collision launched her vehicle across the median, raking a palm tree, and landing on the other side of the road where she collided into a parked van. Her vehicle was extensively damaged.

But Neal's rampage didn't end there. He then collided with a parked Saturn Vue. He hit it so hard, he took off one of the wheels. Neal ended off the movie like scenario by crashing into a lamp post that saved a fruit shop from imminent danger.

It sounds unreal for but for those involved it was very real especially for 53-year-old Joseph Meigan. Meighan who had just started washing cars about three weeks ago was washing the parked white Saturn when Neal's van came barreling out of nowhere and hit him. He was thrown all the way up the street. Meighan survived the massive impact and is back at home. He has no recollection of what happened.

Joseph Meighan, Accident Victim
"I saw myself on the ground when they showed me on the phone. I don't know what happened."

"Well when I found myself my sister brought me home and told me what happened."

Sahar Vasquez, reporter
"What injuries did you sustain?"

Joseph Meighan, Accident Victim
"Only over my eye here and the back of my head got a little bust."

His sister Cynthia was at home washing clothes when she heard the news. She was told that her brother had died. She dropped everything to rush out and see. She was more than relieved to find her brother alive. But she is still tormented by the image of her brother laid out on the pavement.

Cynthia Meighan, Sister
"I rushed out and when I reached he was on the ground bent up and he had a chop on his nose and face. His eyes were swollen. They could not open."

The family is glad that their loved one is ok but they are now left with a heap of medical bills and very few answers.

Sahar Vasquez
"What is the action that the family wants to take on the person that did this? You have hospital bills to pay, medications to pay for."

Cynthia Meighan, Sister
"Well I want them to take care of his hospital bills and the wounding he got. RIght now he is still in pain from the foot to the chest."

"The police have not come yet because we still have the police record here for in case they come. No police come yet."

And the rampage continued after the accident. PC Wilbert Cob reports that Neal assaulted him and damaged his watch when he was trying to detain the wayward driver. He was then escorted to the Police Station where he was served with a Notice of Intended Prosecution and a blood sample was taken from him. He is pending charges of multiple traffic offences, resisting arrest, and damage to property.

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