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New Yo Creek Road Registers Five Fatalities In Four Months
posted (April 26, 2017)

One man survived a fatal accident on the Yo Creek Road yesterday evening. At around 4:45, 59 year old Miguel Solis was driving his white Jeep Cherokee from Orange Walk Town towards his home in August Pine Ridge Village when he lost control at mile four and a half. The vehicle flipped multiple times and Solis was crushed to death inside the cab - which was completely flattened. But his passenger 46 year old Gildardo Balam survived and he was rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital. He received head and body injuries and is now stable.

As we noted last night, this is the fourth traffic fatality on this road in four months. The other one, a triple fatality happened just half a mile away from this one close to Christmas.

And, one viewer pointed out that we overlooked another fatal accident which happened on this road in January when an SUV ran head on into a motorbike.

The road was paved in the past few years, as part of the Accompanying Measures for Sugar - a program designed to bring a better quality of life to the north.

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