There was a serious accident between miles 26 and 27 on the Western Highway today. It was due to a head-on collision between a Ford Ranger pickup and a Nissan Patrol.
The accident happened at around 2 p.m., when a pickup driven by David Medina, Junior, went into the lane of a Blue SUV driven by Kevin Castillo, the popular Belize City-based auctioneer.
KREM News spoke with Amy Roaches, A BAHA Vet who was first on the scene and saw the accident unfold.
Voice of: Amy Roches - Eyewitness
"Between mile 25 and 26, a red vehicle just collided into him - it went straight into his lane. After that had happened I jumped out of my vehicle and I went to see what happened to Mr. Castillo - he was unconscious on his steering wheel and I thought he had died so I said that I would go and see if I could have consoled a screaming lady.
After I went by the lady, I asked her what the problem was and if she was related to the person on the ground and she said 'yes he's my husband' and so I asked how is it that she didn't have a scratch on her and she told me that she was following behind him. So while consoling her she was asking for my permission for her to take her husband to the hospital because he would die and at the same time Mr. Medina - I believe that's his name - was lying in his pool of blood, gasping for air - it was like every three seconds he would be gasping for air - very deep gasp. He was bleeding profusely and he had a big incision at the back of his head from the top of his skull about eight inches. That side of his face was swollen and damaged, his clothes was ripped off, his footwear was by the cluth and pedals. So when the lady was crying, a BDF came and checked his pulse and he was still breathing and the lady said that she wouldn't allow him to die on the ground - I don't know if she broke a rule or something but the co-workers carried the man and put him in the other vehicle that the wife was coming in. They rushed him to the hospital and they put him on his side so that he could have gotten as much air and to not be choking on his own blood.
After he left, I went to see Mr. Castillo, and I sat in the vehicle behind Mr. Castillo just trying to keep him conscious. At some time Mr. Castillo would be normal and then he would go out of his mind and just start asking me over and over what had happened - I believe that is from the hit on his head. He also claimed that the left side of his chest was hurting him and I told him it could have been because of the impact of the airbag. He was begging me to help him take his foot out of the pedals because they were becoming numb, they were with him giving him water."
That interview was brought to you courtesy of KREM Radio. We could not confirm with police the names and conditions of the persons in the accident, but we'll have more on this tomorrow.
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