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Unlicensed, Drunk Driver Implicated In Double Fatality Western Hwy
posted (September 1, 2014)
A teenager was killed in a massive collision on Friday night outside Belmopan - and it was all caused by a drunk driver who didn't even have a license. It happened between miles 46 and 47 on the Western Highway where a red Mitsubishi pickup with Belize City plates collided into a Grey Chevy Tracker from Stann Creek. The pickup was reportedly travelling to the city when the Tracker which was heading to Belmopan, crashed into it, and spun off the road, flipping several times. As this footage shows, it was extensively damaged. Three persons were trapped inside the Tracker, including Indian Medical student 20-year-old Lenin Mayavan, and his passengers 17-year-old Jose Manuel Castellanos of Salvapan and 22-year-old Maritza Cruz Rodriguez, a Honduran Waitress. Mayavan survived with only minor injuries while his passengers were crushed inside and died. They were reportedly coming from M and S bar at mile 37, and we saw signs of beer bottles in the Tracker.

The driver of the Mitsubishi, 67-year-old Luis Romero Urbina, a businessman from Orange Walk Town, received abrasions on his forehead, hands, right side of his body, right knee and right elbow.

Lenin Mayavan the driver of the Tracker was charged with two counts of manslaughter by negligence, 2 counts of causing death by careless conduct, 1 count of drove motor vehicle without due care and attention, 1 count of drove motor vehicle without a driver's license, I count of drove motor vehicle with alcohol concentration above the prescribed limit and negligent grievous harm.

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