Switching gears now...
Tonight, the family of a Ladyville resident is mourning after he was knocked down and killed on his way home from work.
Around 5:00 yesterday - at the height not the evening rush - 46-year-old Jordy Bainton, a resident of the Mitchell Estate area of Ladyville, was riding his bicycle home after finishing up his workday at Belize Waste Control.
While he was riding through the Benny's roundabout, passing between a Mack truck and the median, he fell under the truck. Police say the truck dragged him about 35 feet before it came to a stop.
Bainton was injured but still conscious and b bystanders rushed to his aid. But, in the end, Bainton's head and bodily injuries were too severe. When he was finally rushed to the KHMH, he was pronounced dead on arrival.
We spoke with 2 of his grieving siblings today, and they told us that they are worried about the young child and wife he leaves behind:
Ian Bainton, Brother of Deceased
"When I came from work I see the bike under the truck and I ask my friend that the bike looks like my brother's bike. When I reached Ladyville, I didn't know it was him. He was a working guy every day. the have a wife and a child. Now what will they do about that? What are they doing with the driver? Has the driver been charged already?"
Reporter
"What kind of bike was it?"
Ian Bainton, Brother of Deceased
"Bicycle."
Reporter
"So he rides every day home?"
Ian Bainton, Brother of Deceased
"He rides from home to work and from work to home, because he works at Waste Control."
Shana Williams, sister
"The accident that we heard about we didn't like it, because he has a son and a wife and she is not working and we want to know how we will help her with her kid. We missed him, but we want justice because we don't know if this person was driving hard or what. My brother always took care on the road and he really knows the street. I want justice for him. It could happen to anybody out here. I feel it and my mother is at home crying and she can't handle it anymore."
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