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12 Year Old Girl Killed In Fatal Accident
posted (December 4, 2017)
There was a terrible traffic fatality on the George Price Highway this weekend. It happened at midday on Saturday between miles 59 and 60, near Unitedville. 28 year old Didier Novelo from San Pedro was driving a Ford Explorer and he flipped while rounding a corner, causing the SUV to overturn several times. 6 people were inside, and 12 year old Lelany Chan was flung to her death.

We spoke to an eyewitness who told us more:..

Voice of: Resident
"I just saw the police like everywhere and all the traffic just stopped and I saw the police and I saw one guy standing right here and the traffic was all slow then I hear the ambulance because I couldn't see it from my house then I hear the ambulance right here on the corner and I hear them carry them off. After that I just stayed in my house so just to stay out of the way and keep my dog out of the way."

Courtney Weatherburne, reporter
"Around what time was this?"

Voice of: Resident
"Midday, right in the middle of the day and there is normally a checkpoint up there so I put it down to something gone wrong at the check point and that's what I thought it was until pretty much near the end and everybody say and go up look up out there and actually I found a little shoe which doesn't seem to be there this morning but that looked about the age of that little girl that was in there and all the other garbage."

"I have lived in this place for about 7 years and that is the 18th road accident I have seen on this one stretch."

"I am very worried about it, I wish someone would do something to slow it down."

We are told Lelany Chan died on the way down to the KHMH.

20 YEAR OLD passenger Joslie Johnson sustained various body injuries and was hospitalized in an unconscious state. Four other persons who were in the vehicle are in a stable condition at the San Ignacio Hospital and the driver is detained pending investigation.

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