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Police Loses Life In Fatal Accident
posted (March 4, 2013)
Tonight, one Police officer from the Gang Suppression Unit is dead, and 2 others are in the hospital after they were all in a traffic accident, which occurred last night.

At around 9:30, 22 year-old Hilbert Ack, 27 year-old George Ferguson, 28 year-old Bani Shol, were in a Toyota Camry heading to Belmopan. When they got to an area between miles 34 and 35, Shol, who was the driver, lost control, and that caused them to flip several times.

They all suffered bodily injuries of varying degree, but Shol's injuries were too severe. He passed away while the other 2 men made it to the Western Regional Hospital.

He is the second police officer to die in a traffic accident in the past eight days.

And while those officers are recovering from that accident, another man died on the road this weekend. It happened between mile 15 and 16 on the Stann Creek Valley Road at around 8 on Saturday evening.

29 year-old Jairo Zetina was driving his blue Toyota Camry, and he was traveling with his family, 60 year-old Therese Zetina, 18 year-old Dina Figueroa, 27 year-old Pedro Zetina, and Omar and Solin Amid, who all live at mile 18 on the Stann Creek Road.

At about 2 and half miles away from home, 29 year-old Guatemalan National Ervin August, a resident of Alta Vista, was traveling on his motorcycle in the opposite direction. According to Jairo Zetina, the motorcycle had no headlights, and it suddenly crashed into the passenger side of his vehicle.

August died on the spot as a result of that crash.

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