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Police Pickup Pileup
posted (January 27, 2017)
A police officer crashed one of their pickups into a civilian vehicle, causing it to flip. It happened at around mile 11 on the Hummingbird Highway some time after 9 this morning. Police Corporal Branson Peters was driving an Isuzu D-max pickup and in the vehicle with him at the time was Petrona Coy, a finance officer from Placencia. They were driving from Dangriga to Belmopan, when they crashed into a black Suzuki Vitara, which was being driven at the time by Robert Wiebe, a US Retiree. Corporal Peters' version is that the Vitara was heading in the direction as he was, but the driver suddenly turned left, causing him to collide into the left side.

Police didn't say what happened to the Robert Wiebe and his wife, Joelene, but the D-max flipped, causing Petrona Coy to suffer injuries to the shoulder.

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